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New York State must fight back against corporate attacks on workers’ rights. Support the EmPIRE Act!
In New York, our communities have organized and won critical victories for workers, including a $15 minimum wage, paid family leave, protections against
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New York State must bring the "Protect Our Courts Act" to a vote this session!
We are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo, Speaker Carl Heastie & Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins to help pass the “Protect Our Courts Act”
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New Yorkers demand that ICE release 25-year-old trans community member Yimy! #FreeYimy
This past Christmas, Yimy Aldair Benitez Lopez, a 25-year-old Long Island resident and asylum-seeker from Honduras, was set to complete their gender transition
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New Yorkers are committed to participating in the 2020 Census!
Since 1790, the U.S. Constitution has mandated that every U.S. resident regardless of age, citizenship status, or ability to vote be counted every
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Governor Cuomo: Create One Fair Wage for Tipped Earners Across New York State!
Did you know that workplaces that pay people in tips are getting away with paying New Yorkers LESS THAN the minimum wage? Restaurant
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We wrote to the Supreme Court: Don’t rule on DACA without considering COVID-19
Today we’re telling the Supreme Court: don’t rule on DACA without considering COVID-19. Our members with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) have been at the forefront of the fight to defend DACA for 700,000 immigrants and their families, and now they’re helping support their communities and families through an unprecedented crisis. As plaintiffs in…
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The stimulus will leave many behind
Over the past week, we have fought for a just federal stimulus package that puts the needs of working people before the demands of big corporations and billionaires. The good news is that we helped beat back the worst of Trump and Senate Republican’s reckless proposals to give away vast amounts of money to corporations…
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Here’s how we’re responding to the Coronavirus
It has been an overwhelming and terrifying past couple of days for New Yorkers, and communities across the world who have been hit by the COVID-19 outbreak, also known as the coronavirus. At Make the Road NY we are shifting our work to respond to this new reality and to protect our members, staff and…
The Appeal
In 1976, New York criminalized behavior described as “loitering for the purpose of engaging in a prostitution offense.” The statute faced constitutional challenges from the outset. Legal Aid Society lawyers, on behalf of a woman arrested the first day the law was in effect, argued that it was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad and inhibited free…
AM New York
NYC Care, the de Blasio administration’s answer to universal health care for New Yorkers, became available to Brooklyn and Staten Island residents on Thursday. The administration expects to enroll 15,000 new NYC Care members in both boroughs over the next six months. Launched last August in the Bronx, more than 13,000 residents there are enrolled…
The Hill
VIDEO The Trump administration can move forward with a rule to make it harder for immigrants who rely on public assistance to gain legal status while a court challenge plays out, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 along ideological lines to lift a nationwide injunction on the proposal imposed by a federal…