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Unemployment Discrimination is Ridiculous
Where do these corporations get the nerve? When Citizen Action’s Policy Director Bob Cohen brought the “unemployment discrimination” issue up at our last staff gathering, I almost fell off my chair. The more I read
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The Attack on Verizon Workers is an Attack on All of Us
The attack on the middle class that we heard about in Wisconsin last winter has arrived in New York
Read More »We All Have To Act For Voter Owned Publicly Funded Elections
The Nation’s editor Katrina Vanden Heuvel hit it on the head in her January 24th blog post, “Cuomo’s Reform Moment.” Everyone knows why we need a system of voter owned publicly financed elections in
Read More »Verizon’s Return On Investment Shows Need For Public Financing Of Campaigns
by Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director Our colleague in reform, Blair Horner of NYPIRG, might have said it best when he said, "The way you try to influence lawmakers in Albany is to be nice to
Read More »The Reform Governor? Let’s Hope So!
by Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director After a year in state politics like 2009, which included dysfunction, slashing of programs New Yorkers need, and the death of numerous bills designed for the public good, yes, 2010
Read More »‘Tis the Season for Giving… or Bribing
by Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director As many of us look to cut corners this holiday season because of tight budgets thanks to the still difficult economy, I can’t help but think of some other “gifts”
Read More »The Public Option is Far From “Dead”
by Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director This morning’s NY Times article, Public Option Is Next Big Hurdle in Health Debate, gives all the clear and simple reasons why we must focus our house members and President
Read More »Updated: Just a Good Government Dream?
by Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director Two recent newspaper editorials, the first in the Albany Times Union on September 27th: Time to retire pension politics and Buffalo News’ Rod Watson Commentary on October 1st: Only
Read More »Small Steps Along the Way to the Big Win
by Jessica Wisneski, Legislative Director Years back, when I was about to graduate college, I remember my father’s great concern that I find a “good job.” His fears weren’t about pay or my ability to
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