November
2018
9
A group of class action attorneys announced today that funds remaining from a groundbreaking class action lawsuit they brought against a debt collection ring will be awarded to nonprofit legal clinics across New York State that provide free assistance to New Yorkers sued by debt collectors.
July
2018
18
New York, NY — Today, leading New York organizations announced the New York Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice march on September 6 around the Global Climate Action Summit. At the Summit, state and local officials are expected to gather in San Francisco to make commitments and fill the void of climate leadership from the Trump administration. New Yorkers are urging Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and elected officials at all levels to take bold and immediate action on climate change, create hundreds of thousands of good green jobs, and fight for justice for all New Yorkers.
June
2018
8
New York – State Senator James Sanders Jr. (D-Queens) recently held a hearing on the Community Reinvestment Act, in response to the US Treasury Department’s recommendations on modernizing the law.
June
2018
5
New York, NY – Today, a broad-based coalition of community, worker rights, economic justice, and environmental groups launched a new campaign, calling on New York City to create a public bank.
May
2018
21
Ditmas Park resident Romain Prage today successfully settled a lawsuit he filed in 2016 against debt collection firm Kavulich and Associates, securing redress not only for himself but also potentially for thousands of other New Yorkers whose benefits are exempt from debt collection.
May
2018
15
At the JPMorgan Chase shareholder meeting today in Plano, Texas, New Economy Project presented an analysis of Chase’s track record of harming New Yorkers and New York City neighborhoods. The group’s analysis highlighted a litany of discriminatory and abusive practices by the bank, from longstanding mortgage redlining to siphoning of sorely-needed funds from Chase’s lowest-income customers – ultimately driving people out of mainstream banking.
April
2018
13
Today, tipped wage workers, advocates, and labor leaders held a kick-off event with and elected officials to call for One Fair Wage in New York. The One Fair Wage (OFW) campaign is fighting for better wages, better tips and represents a next step in the Fight For 15 to cover tipped workers left behind, as part of the ongoing movement forward. Seven states already pay tipped workers a basic minimum wage in addition to their tips: New York could be next.
March
2018
28
We are dismayed that the New York Fed appears poised to appoint a new president through a reportedly closed process, without meaningful consideration of public input. Given the vital role of the New York Fed president and all that is at stake with this appointment, New Economy Project calls on the Fed to pursue an open, transparent process for selecting its next president, even if this means going back to square one.
February
2018
15
Last night, Representatives Gregory Meeks (D-NY-5) and Tom Suozzi (D-NY-3) broke with the rest of the state’s Democrats and joined New York’s Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives in voting to pass a bill, H.R. 3299, that would allow lenders to launder loans through banks to override limits in New York and other states on high-cost loans, potentially paving the way for loans of up to 300 percent APR in states where those rates are prohibited.
February
2018
14
A Broad-Based Coalition Urges NYS to Appropriate $25 Million to Community Development Financial Institutions in Face of Trump’s Proposal to Zero Out Federal Funding.