by Communications Team | Apr 8, 2020 | Press Releases
Advocates urge city to use stimulus money to prevent wave of evictions after moratorium expires Utica, NY– Tenants, property owners and advocates, including Citizen Action of New York and Utica Common Council members Celeste Friend and Delvin Moody, are urging the...
by Communications Team | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Activist, I hope you and your loved ones are safe and doing well. The moment of truth has come. State leaders delivered a final budget agreement that is disappointing, to say the least. The choice was clear: cut vital funding during a global crisis or raise taxes...
by Communications Team | Apr 3, 2020 | Press Releases
Albany, NY–With the inclusion of a strong permanent paid sick days policy in the New York State budget passed this week, New York will now be the 12th state to protect, in law, a worker’s right to earn and use job-protected paid sick leave to care for themselves...
by Communications Team | Apr 2, 2020 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – In response to Governor Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie reaching an agreement on a 2020 state budget, Rosemary Rivera, Co-Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, released the following...
by Communications Team | Mar 31, 2020 | Press Releases
“Continued discussion of changing the bail laws to increase pretrial jailing and racial oppression flies in the face of both civil rights and public health. To have members of Albany’s leadership pushing for these policy changes as part of this year’s budget process...
