Featured Work: Good Food, Good Jobs

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Millions of New Yorkers live in “food deserts,” neighborhoods in which the absence of full-service supermarkets denies residents access both to affordable healthy food and to quality jobs with decent wages and benefits. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Solidarity

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New York Jobs with Justice was formed and continues to be built on the principle of solidarity—“being there” for someone else’s struggle as well as your own. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Green Jobs

At the Climate Justice Conference
We believe it is not only possible but urgently necessary to develop a 21st century economy that both protects our environment and creates good green jobs.  Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Civic Engagement

Rachel LaForest Collecting Signatures
Educating and mobilizing more voters in poor and low-income communities and communities of color is critical to building support for progressive solutions in New York City and State.  Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Getting Our Money’s Worth

Stand for IDA Reform
Our government spends more than $8 billion dollars a year on corporate subsidies, but these investments too often fail to create the good jobs and community benefits New Yorkers need. Visit Project Page

The Walmartization of New York City

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This report by ALIGN’s Josh Kellermann and CUNY’s Stephanie Luce suggests that Walmart’s likely plans for expansion in NYC would dramatically shift the city’s entire retail landscape for the worse. In order to achieve its average 21% market share, Walmart would need to open 159 stores throughout all 5 boroughs, creating devastating effects for local small businesses, communities and workers.
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Featured Resources

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This report examines the performance of Industrial Development Agencies, or IDAs, New York’s main job creation tool and finds that IDAs are not living up to their job creation promises.

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Featured Story

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Ruby Carrasquillo is a weatherization technician at CEC, a Queens-based nonprofit that brings weatherization to low-income homes and apartment buildings in the New York Metro Area. She is also a member of Local 10 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), and she spends her days blowing cellulose insulation into walls, insulating pipes, weather-stripping doors or caulking windows.

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