Racial Equality

If the minimum wage had increased as much as Wall Street bonuses since 1985, it would be worth $61.75 today.

The recommendations would reduce inequality by setting high-road standards for federal contractors, closing tax loopholes for the rich, canceling student debt, cracking down on price-gougers, and building worker power.

New York's essential workers have been excluded from relief and benefits. The Fund Excluded Workers Coalition is fighting to change that.

The legislation gets rid of a manufactured financial burden that has threatened the ability of USPS to provide good jobs and universal service.

Efforts to narrow the racial wealth divide must address the disparities that are at the heart of our nation's founding and still run through its veins in the 21st century.

Hit hard by the Covid crisis, restaurant workers are joining with other essential workers to fight for policies at all levels of government that will allow them to live in dignity.

Strong jobs numbers are not enough. The president should keep pushing a bold legislative agenda while deploying every executive tool at his disposal to achieve a more equitable economy.

Civil rights leaders of the 1960s understood that without political power, racial economic gaps would persist.

Two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, New York has an opportunity to transform its care economy by investing in workers.