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- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Yorkers would be shocked to learn of the conditions some construction workers in our city toil under.
- Contractors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Legally, many contractors are required to pay a prevailing wage. However, bad actors often find ways to get around this requirement.
- Contractors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some contractors force workers to provide paybacks to keep their jobs. Others intentionally misclassify workers in order to underpay them - by, for example, paying a skilled construction worker as a general laborer.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The workers who get hurt by corner-cutting often do not realize they are being wronged. Even when they do, they do not have the support and resources to fight back. Without a union to stand behind them, these workers are forced to stay in bad jobs, or face no job at all.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
While New York City cannot prevent other jurisdictions from selling firearms, it has taken a powerful stance against guns by divesting pension funds from gun manufacturers.
- Outdoors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walmart markets its gun department as 'sports and outdoors,' but let us get one thing straight: They are not just selling hunting rifles.
- Divest
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York City must divest the hundreds of millions of dollars we have invested in Walmart for far too long, dollars that are only fueling violence and undermining the greater public interest. Once our nation's largest city does so, I know other states and municipalities will follow suit.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dysfunction in Washington has stalled any meaningful federal action on gun control. So it's increasingly up to big cities like New York to take bold steps to get weapons off our streets and change the national discourse.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the not-so-watchful eye of ACS, children continue to die avoidable deaths. This is beyond unacceptable and betrays our moral conscience.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before any family is placed in any type of shelter, there must be a thorough, top-to-bottom, building-wide inspection. These inspections must be ongoing and publicly accessible. There is no excuse for any person to be blindly put into an apartment without a guarantee that the space is safe.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
The status quo is clearly broken, and we must strive for bigger, bolder solutions that will provide New Yorkers with the support they need to remain in their homes.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within New York City and state, families in need face a confusing hodgepodge of supplemental rental assistance programs, many of which are ineffective individually and all of which are clearly ineffective in the aggregate.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Yorkers want to be compassionate, and they want to live in a city where homeless people aren't stuffed into shelters, spilling out onto the streets. They also want a support system that works.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home Stability Support is our best shot at creating an all-encompassing and effective system to ensure that our at-risk children and families can remain in the homes they deserve.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wage discrimination lasts forever. The disparity haunts women beyond their years in the labor force, impacting how much they save for retirement and ultimately receive in Social Security benefits.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our evenly matched rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness require an equal paycheck.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020