September 1, 2021
Invest In Our New York
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AN ECONOMY
FOR THE MANY.
Join Our Movement
Tax the rich
An economy that works for everyone.
New York has the highest rate of income inequality in the U.S. because our economy is rigged for corporations and the ultra-wealthy. The rest of us can change that by joining together as the working class to make our state’s 100+ billionaires pay their fair share, strengthen unions and worker protections, and secure good jobs for everyday people. By taking back the wealth we build, we can guarantee every American what they need to thrive.
135B
billionaires live in New York
5M+
American workers lost their insurance during COVID
$$2.6 trillion
the combined wealth increase of U.S. billionaires since the pandemic
OUR APPROACH
Taking back our wealth.
We’re passing laws that make the greedy few pay their fair share of taxes, then investing that money in our communities across the state. We’re also taking back our economic system at every level — banking, local and statewide budgets, our workplaces — so that we all can share in the prosperity of our country.
LEGISLATION
Bills on the table
Universal Childcare Act 21st Century Antitrust Act Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act Invest in Our New York Raise Up NY Invest In Our New York Universal Childcare Act Public Banking Act
Universal Childcare Act
21st Century Antitrust Act
Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act
Invest in Our New York
Raise Up NY
Invest In Our New York
Universal Childcare Act
Public Banking Act
The Universal Childcare Act will invest $5 billion into our childcare system and give childcare workers the raises they need and deserve. It will finally create a truly universal childcare system, giving all families access to care from a child’s birth to age 13. It will increase childcare workers’ pay to meet public school teachers’. And it will finally treat childcare as the critical infrastructure it is for everyday people.
New York’s antitrust law hasn’t been updated in 125 years, and that’s why dominant corporations like Amazon control our economy. The 21st Century Antitrust Act will ensure dominant corporations can’t depress wages unfairly, downgrade working conditions and benefits, fix prices, or exploit local businesses. It also mandates workers and unions get a seat at the table to protect everyday people from corporate mergers. This bill is a pioneering step toward making sure our economy works for all of us.
This bill will keep workers in the warehouse industry—one of the fastest growing industries in the state, and one of the more dangerous—safe from hazardous working conditions with limited oversight and abusive employers. The Warehouse Worker Injury Reduction Act will lead to better job design, safety standards, training, and enforcement to keep workers safe and their jobs sustainable.
In 2021, we won an annual budget that taxed the rich and big corporations to invest in our communities. But we’re not done yet. We’re continuing to fight with the Invest In Our New York coalition to pass a host of bills that will counter years of austerity and win billions more for New Yorkers. We’re fighting to pass the Corporate Tax Bill, Progressive Income Tax Bill, Capital Gains Tax, Heirs Tax, Billionaires Asset Tax so we can invest in our communities.
This bill would restore New York’s minimum wage and ensure that minimum wage workers have the means to provide for themselves and their families by raising the minimum wage in NYC and its suburbs to $21.25 and the minimum wage upstate to $20 by 2026. Then, starting in 2027, the minimum wage would be “indexed” it to inflation, meaning it would be adjusted it each year to keep up with rising costs of living.
After a year of COVID-era campaigning by hundreds of allied organizations, New York state lawmakers enacted a 2021 budget with $4.3 billion in new, progressive, annual revenue that taxes the rich and big corporations to invest in communities. But we’re not done yet. We are continuing to fight with the Invest In Our New York coalition to counter years of austerity and win billions more for New Yorkers.
The Universal Childcare Act will invest $5 billion into our childcare system and give childcare workers the raises they need and deserve. It will finally create a truly universal childcare system, giving all families access to care from a child’s birth to age 13. It will increase childcare workers’ pay to meet public school teachers’. And it will finally treat childcare as the critical infrastructure it is for everyday people.
Through a public bank, New York can support our local economy and divest from banks that are financing destructive corporate interests, including speculative real estate, private prison and immigrant detention companies, the global arms trade, and the fossil fuel industry.
A public bank would serve critical neighborhood needs and create shared prosperity in our state
POWER TO EVERYDAY PEOPLE
