by Communications Team | Oct 26, 2015 | Press Releases
Families, Women, Seniors, Infants, Businesses All Greatly Impacted by NY’s Lack of Paid Family Leave Kingston, NY – Working families are forced to decide between their paychecks and caring for loved ones according to Hudson Valley residents, community...
by Communications Team | Jul 22, 2015 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – In response to today’s announcement by the New York Fast Food Wage Board on raising the fast-food industry’s minimum wage to $15, fast-food workers, community leaders, elected officials and labor groups said. Travell Caruth, an Albany Burger King worker,...
by Communications Team | Jul 16, 2015 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – As Attorney General Schneiderman begins to implement an executive order that gives his office authority over prosecutions in cases of police officers killing civilians, Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, said:...
by Communications Team | Jun 25, 2015 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – In response to the end of this year’s legislative session, Karen Scharff, Executive Director of Citizen Action of New York, said: “This legislative session ended the same way it began – with billionaire campaign donors running the show....
by Communications Team | Jun 25, 2015 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – In response to today’s 6 to 3 Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell, holding that subsidies under the Affordable Care Act – known as “premium tax credits” – are available in every state, including those with federally operated health insurance...
by Communications Team | Jun 11, 2015 | Press Releases
Say it’s time to pay families a wage that meets basic needs and stop subsidizing the industry’s low wages Albany, NY – Faith leaders from across the state came together at the State Capitol on Thursday to call on Governor Cuomo’s Wage Board to back a $15 minimum wage...
by Communications Team | May 7, 2015 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – In response to news that Governor Cuomo has formed a wage board to investigate the wages of fast food industry workers, Jacquie Jordan, a McDonald’s worker from Albany and a member of Citizen Action of New York, said: “I work hard all...
by Communications Team | May 4, 2015 | Press Releases
Albany, NY – In response to the New York State Assembly passing a hist minimum wage increase that sets New York on a path to a $15 minimum wage, with automatic increases indexed to inflation, members of the Raise Up New York coalition said: Mauricio Jimenez, Make the...
by Communications Team | May 4, 2015 | Press Releases
In response to the New York State Assembly passing a significant minimum wage increase that sets New York on a path to a $15 minimum wage, with automatic increases indexed to inflation, members of the Raise Up New York coalition said: Mauricio Jimenez, Make the Road...
