Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act

If You Take Our Money, Pay Us Fairly

Andrew Wilkes | Posted 01.18.2012

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Andrew Wilkes

It's time for developers to adjust to paying workers a living wage as a condition of accepting taxpayer money for large-scale commercial development in the city.

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Bloomberg Supports Study That Shows Higher Wages Will Kill Jobs

Posted 12.05.2011

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Would an increase in wages lead to a stronger economy for New Yorkers? According to a study commissioned by the Economic Development Corporation th...

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Why We (Still) Can't Wait For Economic Justice

Brad Lander | Posted 06.06.2011

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Brad Lander

That we are made in the divine image is at the center of the Judaism's essential commitment to guaranteeing basic human dignity. One undeniable expression of this is a living wage.

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George Warner

Hundreds Rally For Higher Wages On Anniversary Of King's Death

HuffingtonPost.com | George Warner | Posted 08.04.2011

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NEW YORK -- Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied on the 43rd anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination Monday night, calling for the passage o...

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Martin Luther King III Speaks Out on NYC Living Wage Campaign

Amy Traub | Posted 06.04.2011

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Amy Traub

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed 43 years ago today. The assassination occurred as he was supporting a strike of municipal sanitation workers, st...

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New York's Lousy Jobs (And How We Can Make Them Better)

Amy Traub | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Traub

Should we tear down the city's middle class? Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones? That's the policy choice facing New York's leaders. So far, their decisions aren't encouraging.

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Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Why NYC's People of Faith Must Fight for a Living Wage

Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rev. Peter Goodwin Heltzel, Ph.D.

Religious leaders are watching and mobilizing in the stout-hearted struggle for justice for New York City's workers. We will not be delayed, we will not be distracted, we will not forget the least of these.

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Measuring New York City's Wage Adequacy

Michele Mattingly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michele Mattingly

Public policy in recent years has stressed the primacy of employment over public support to address poverty, yet too many of New York's jobs simply do not pay enough.

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