The Remittance Racket Five ways New York can confront Trump’s anti-immigrant tax

Today, Michael Galant on how countering the remittance racket (the predatory skimming off of money immigrants send to family overseas) can define a pro-immigrant alternative agenda to Trumpism & put money back in the pockets of working-class NYers!

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Great piece with some really creative policy ideas. Someone get Zohran on the phone!

I think absolutely everyone should read this. It offers simple and well thought out ways that the Mamdani Administration can counter the targeting of working class immigrants in NYC by both predatory financial services and the federal government

Tax the Rich | NYC Policy Forum A Tax Day discussion with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and economists Joseph Stiglitz and Gabriel Zucman

Over at @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social, you can find a full transcript of Ana María Archila, Zohran Mamdani, Joseph Stiglitz, and Gabriel Zucman discussing wealth inequality, tax debates in New York City, and multilateral tax negotiations being pursued around the world.

Tax the Rich | NYC Policy Forum A Tax Day discussion with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and economists Joseph Stiglitz and Gabriel Zucman

“New York can afford to lose a couple of billionaires, but it cannot afford to lose its working class.”

The Tax Day discussion between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and economists Joseph Stiglitz and Gabriel Zucman now up on our substack!!

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The Spirit of the Americas Against the Donroe Doctrine New York City’s Avenue of the Americas reflects a New Deal gesture toward hemispheric cooperation. April 14, Día de las Américas, offers a chance to revive that spirit by affirming Pan-American solidarity, self-determination, and social equality.

New York City’s Avenue of the Americas reflects a New Deal gesture toward hemispheric cooperation.

April 14, Día de las Américas, offers a chance to revive that spirit by affirming Pan-American solidarity, self-determination, and social equality.

The Power to Pass a Law. The Power to Enforce It. NYC just passed just cause for drivers, a Safe Hotels Act, and security guard wage protections. Now the real fight begins. Excerpts from Bhairavi Desai, Izzy Melendez, Commissioner Sam Levine, & more

If you missed our event on "Enforcing the Affordability Agenda" w/ Bhairavi Desai (Taxi Workers Alliance), Rich Maroko (Hotel Gaming & Trades), Izzy Melendez (SEIU), Sam Levine (DCWP), & Stephanie Luce (CUNY SLU), the video & excerpts are now on our substack!

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Noma Wasn't The Exception: Working Conditions in the Restaurant Industry · One Fair Wage Julia Moskin's explosive *New York Times* investigation into René Redzepi and Noma shattered the myth that abuse in restaurants is the price of greatness. Dozens of former employees described years of...

CUNY SLU is hosting an excellent event *tomorrow* (April 13 6pm) on working conditions in the restaurant industry in NYC.

Speakers include Julia Moskin (NYT), Saru Jayaraman (One Fair Wage), Russel Jackson (restaurant owner), & Namrata Hegde (Noma employee), moderated by Stephanie Luce

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From fine dining to fast casual, restaurant workers face wage theft, harassment, & poverty pay rooted in a subminimum wage that hasn't moved from $2.13 in 30+ years.

Join CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies & a 🔥 panel to discuss the state of restaurant work in NYC!

TOMORROW night at 6pm at SLU

Three Ways the Public Grocery Experiment Could Fail | Errol Schweizer & Raj Patel How private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself

Today, @grocerynerd.bsky.social & @rajpatel.org discuss how private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself and how the Mamdani Admin can avoid these pitfalls!

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Three Ways the Public Grocery Experiment Could Fail | Errol Schweizer & Raj Patel How private operators, procurement, and budget-neutrality could threaten a public grocery store pilot before it has a chance to prove itself

This is v good and thoughtful from @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social, especially the proposal to bundle public grocery store procurement under a broader wholesale purchasing umbrella w all the other food procurement the city does for schools, hospitals, corrections, etc substack.com/app-link/pos...

Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance How do grassroots movements make policy change? And how do they hold elected officials accountable? This panel, the third in our ongoing LPE Night School series, turns to the relationship between…

Please come out to CUNY Law tomorrow night for the last session of the LPE NYC night school this year! We have an incredible line-up of speakers who are actively working to think through how social movements influence and support the agenda of the Mamdani Admin!!

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Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance How do grassroots movements make policy change? And how do they hold elected officials accountable? This panel, the third in our ongoing LPE Night School series, turns to the relationship between…

If you’re in New York tomorrow, do come to this remarkable event, the next in our ongoing @lpenyc.bsky.social night school series: how can social movements shape municipal governance, chaired by @cuny.edu law’s own Prof. Marbré Stahly-Butts.

RSVP below!

If you're not already thinking about the impact and possibilities of procurement practices at the scale of NYC, you should be, and you can start with the @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social substack post today!!

Even good laws don't work on their own!

So excited for @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social to cohost (w/ CUNY SLU) "Enforcing the Affordability Agenda" w/ Bhairavi Desai (Taxi Workers Alliance), Rich Maroko (Hotel Gaming & Trades), Izzy Melendez (SEIU), & Sam Levine (DCWP), moderated by Stephanie Luce

What Would a Russell Vought of the Left Look Like? If we are to realize the dream of post-Trump reconstruction, policy reform will not be enough. We must articulate a constitutional politics capable of dismantling both juristocracy and the modern…

“Once we face these facts, the path ahead becomes as clear as it is daunting. At the federal level, LPE must contend with two entrenched sites of hierarchical power: juristocracy and the modern managerial presidency”

A must-read by @beaubaumann.bsky.social !!

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The next in what has already been a fantastic series at CUNY Law: the LPENYC Night School takes on how social movements affect city government. It’s a rockstar panel of activists and policy-makers, moderated by the peerless Prof. Marbré Stahly-Butts. RSVP below!

Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance How do grassroots movements make policy change? And how do they hold elected officials accountable? This panel, the third in our ongoing LPE Night School series, turns to the relationship between…

Join us March 25th at 6:30pm at CUNY Law for "Organizing for Power: Social Movements & Municipal Governance" to discuss how mass political action translates into policy implementation w/ organizers from Our Time, Make the Road NY & City Council Public Affairs Committee
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It’s a Union Town | Lucia Gomez Private sector union density in New York City

Today on the @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social substack, Lucia Gomez considers how the Mamdani administration might address three hurdles to increasing union density in NYC!

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Just Cause | Sharon Block Flipping the script on at-will employment in New York City

"The new Mamdani administration can right this legal wrong in innovative and effective ways... Imposing 'just cause' standards on employers in New York City would flip the at-will employment script." @sharblock.bsky.social in @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social
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The Real Cost of Affordable Housing | JW Mason Understanding the debate over distressed buildings, multifamily rental incomes, and the rent freeze

If you haven't read this fantastic piece by @jwmason.bsky.social on the complexities & the path forward for making housing affordable in NYC co-published by @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social & @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
@phenomenalworld, really you should!!

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The NYC Policy Forum is a very exciting new project which I am thrilled to be part of.

How to Get to Universal Childcare A conversation with Josh Wallack on Universal Pre-K, the Mamdani-Hochul childcare announcement, and early childhood policy in NYC

Don't miss @ngusdorf.bsky.social in conversation with Josh Wallack, who helped deliver Pre-K for All to New York--covering the de Blasio Pre-K experience, voucherization, universal provision, private providers, & the Hochul-Mamdani childcare announcement.

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Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts Federal courts have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump Administration's radical expansion of mandatory detention. Despite this, ICE continues to arrest and detain tens of thousands of people each month...

There is only one real "guardrail" against DHS horrors: taking away headcount, money, guns, tech, powers.

DHS is openly defying oversight (I wrote up one example here lpeproject.org/blog/immigra...).

This is a common evolution in policing as agencies comes into their own as a political force.

Good News!! The Progressive Talent Pipeline: NYC edition is still accepting applications for PTP endorsement to help you stand out among the 70,000 others who want to work for the one bright spot in the political landscape.

Deadline is February 1!!

When Not to Be a Steamroller Lessons from Eliot Spitzer’s failed push to get driver’s licenses for undocumented New Yorkers

In our newest post, Professor Ava Ayers revisits Governor Eliot Spitzer’s failed push to allow undocumented New Yorkers to get driver’s licenses, illustrating the perils of turning a quiet administrative fix into a political spectacle.

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As the US inches closer and closer to yet another effort to ruin the lives and societies of Venezuelans, Colombians, and Trinidadians, it is imperative to acknowledge and begin with an understanding that the US is an empire that can and does dictate the terms of governance in other sovereign states, can and does undermine the life chances of people beyond its polity, and is a continuing settler-colonial project. In short, we must begin with the presumption that the US does not have a valid legal claim for bombing and destroying others. This is the minimum for left internationalism.

A must-read post by @azohra.bsky.social & Madiha Tahir on how the "double tap" bombing of the boat in the Caribbean is at once horrifying & unexceptional as a US tactic, & how preventing it in the future must start from the recognition that the US's imperial project

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Do you want to work in the Mamdani Administration but worried about standing out among 70k applications???

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How the Left Lost the Plot on Crypto (and How to Find it Again) The story of crypto’s transformation from cypherpunk experiment to Wall Street darling is bleak, but it was not preordained. Where did the left go wrong, and how can it reassert itself in shaping the…

Today, @rohangrey.bsky.social kicks off a series on the law and political economy of cryptocurrency, by considering the Left's missed opportunities and explaining how it can reclaim control over the future of money.