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Report: Little oversight on N.Y.’s $7B in business incentives

By Joseph Spector ALBANY — New York spends $7 billion a year in incentives to entice and keep businesses, a report Wednesday found, but the state doesn’t adequately oversee how that money is spent. New...

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Coalition questions NYS economic development

New York state’s annual billion-dollar allocation to ignite economic development is under scrutiny by a coalition that includes public policy experts, government watchdogs and labor unions. ALIGN — The...

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Report: Little Oversight on NY’s $7B in Business Incentives

By Joseph Spector May 29, 2013 ALBANY, NY– New York spends $7 billion a year in incentives to lure and keep businesses, a report Wednesday found, but the state doesn’t adequately oversee how the money...

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Citibank, Chase & Bank of America: Pay us back!

New York gave away millions in subsidies to Wall Street banks to create jobs for NYers, but instead of creating jobs, they cut jobs. Demand that banks deliver the jobs they promised or pay us back!

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Insight: Cuomo’s Tax-Free NY

By Susan Arbetter June 7, 2013 Tax Free SUNY zones. Start a business, build a business, open a business on or near a state university campus and the governor is ready to offer the experience tax-free....

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Bang For The Buck: Are the state’s Regional Economic Development Councils...

By Adam Janos In late December New York Medical College announced that it was starting the construction of iBio-NYSM, a biotechnology incubator on the college’s campus in Valhalla, N.Y. When it is...

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Corporate Welfare or Education?

By Lawrence Wittner June 13, 2013 “Who needs the Cayman Islands?” That’s how a May 22 New York Times article began as it described “Tax-Free NY,” a plan zealously promoted by New York State’s...

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Letter: Tax-free zones bad for taxpayers

Letter to Editor By Bill Ritchie June 20, 2013 The results of New York’s many “economic development” boondoggles are in. The Alliance for a Greater New York reports taxpayers are spending $7 billion on...

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Win Seen for Cuomo on Tax-Free Business Zones Proposal

Plan Would Open Up Campus Property for Private Businesses By Mara Gay June 20, 2013 ALBANY—Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s most straightforward victory in a messy legislative session here is expected to be on a...

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Pulse of The People: Tax-Free NY won’t work

OpEd By Lawrence Wittner June 22, 2013 Should a public university be transformed into a corporate welfare project? That’s the key question surrounding “Tax-Free NY,” a new plan zealously promoted by...

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Christopher Williams: Stand Up Against Walmart’s Attack on Workers

We call on you to end management’s illegal terminations and disciplinary actions against workers who simply want to support their families and be treated with respect.

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Caring Across NYC Report Launch

Last year, we made history- we brought together over 500 care workers, people with disabilities, seniors, advocates, and elected officials to envision a world where everyone has access to the care they...

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Breaking Chains, Linking Struggles: From Bangladesh to NYC, Worker Solidarity

ALIGN brought together workers from Walmart’s supply chain to share strategies and educate New Yorkers about Walmart’s impact on—and responsibility to—millions of workers around the world. Last...

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Caring Across New York City

ALIGN made more than 1,000 care connections and developed local, state and national strategies to improve the lives of care workers, seniors and people with disabilities. ALIGN and the New York Care...

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Keeping the Focus on a Just Rebuilding After Sandy

Although much of the media focus on the communities most impacted by Superstorm Sandy has faded, ALIGN and our allies in the Alliance for a Just Rebuilding (AJR) are organizing to keep low-income...

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New Report Calls for Good Jobs Not Giveaways

Our new research and policy ideas helped shape the debate and built momentum for improving New York’s job creation programs. ALIGN and the statewide Getting Our Money’s Worth coalition released a new...

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The Capitol Pressroom: July 31, 2013

By Susan Arbetter July 31, 2013 ALIGN: Stands for Alliance for a Greater New York and it is a community and labor organization that is basically working for regular people like you and me. They issued...

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The Majority Of New York’s Care Workers Earn Poverty Wages

By Bryce Covert August 6, 2013 Over 90 percent of domestic workers and 60 percent of home care workers in New York City earn less than $25,000 a year, according to a new report from the Alliance for a...

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Report Finds Home Health Care Workers Earning Poverty Wages

By Stephen Nessen August 06, 2013 The majority of the city’s home health care aides are earning poverty or near poverty wages, according to a new report from the health care advocacy coalition Alliance...

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New York home care industry leader in the next decade

By Gao Mingde August 7, 2013 In New York, one in five adults is involved in caring for the elderly or the disabled. The current problem is that doing home care work, compensation is often small, and...

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