We celebrated with 500+ guests — a beautiful mix of the community of Kensington. We welcomed the great new DCWP Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social. And of course the food was provided by the one & only Nowshin Ali of Jalsa (the food has to come from a woman-owned restaurant for a feminist Iftar).
Mayor Zohran Mamdani at a podium. Claire Valdez is behind him along with elected officials and Deliverista leaders.
Proud to stand with @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social, my elected colleagues and delivery worker leaders today in Long Island City as
@mayor.nyc.gov announced a settlement with app companies for violating NYC's minimum pay law.
$5+ million is going back to the workers.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's vision is an NYC where economic growth & economic justice go hand in hand. That’s only a radical notion because we’ve become so accustomed to economic injustice as the norm.
Doesn’t get better than working with @linamkhan.bsky.social & @saalevine.bsky.social again!
This week, @governor.ca.gov signed SB 766 — the Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act— into law. Sponsored by Sen. Ben Allen with support from Professor Ted Mermin, Senior Fellow Sam Levine, and others, SB 766 strengthens protections for Californians buying or leasing vehicles.
@saalevine.bsky.social testified before NYC’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection in support of banning hotel junk fees. Backed by research from Mia Machado + public comment with CLASS & law school chapters at Berkeley, Fordham, St. John’s & NYU. bit.ly/482iIkq
#ConsumerProtection #JunkFees
Today, @saalevine.bsky.social also joined @agdanrayfield.bsky.social to testify before the Oregon legislature, reinforcing the urgent need for bold state action. Read his testimony here:
bit.ly/46N6ARO
#ConsumerProtection
Watch former FTC official @saalevine.bsky.social testify today about how AI pricing tools are threatening basic economic fairness.
Surveillance pricing "is only possible because weak privacy protections allow companies to track our behavior and predict how much we can be pushed to pay.”
Proud to support the FAIR Business Practices Act, which would prohibit unfair or abusive practices under New York law. With the federal government turning its back on consumers, this legislation is more critical than ever.
The FTC's ban on hotel and concert junk fees, now in force, "shows that smart policies–driven forward by determined leaders– can still break through even in these cynical and polarized times."
Former FTC consumer protection chief @saalevine.bsky.social for The Economic Populist.👇
Last week the Trump-Vance FTC filed a brief defending Click-to-Cancel and describing industry legal attacks as “based on a fallacy.”
Likely to lose in court, industry is now looking to Congress for a bailout. This effort should be cancelled immediately.
Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.
Excited to join @erie.bsky.social to discuss the attacks on our agencies and the growing threats to Americans’ privacy. Tune in!
Today is my last full day as Director of BCP. We’ve had in incredible run. Taking on junk fees, commercial surveillance, subscription traps, and more, we’ve advanced the most ambitious consumer protection agenda in decades. And as I detail below in a farewell post, we’ve delivered.
