The $237 billion budget represents an inflation-adjusted spending decrease of 0.4%.

As more New Yorkers leave the state in search of a lower cost of living, this restrained budget underinvests in the programs and services needed to tackle New York's affordability crisis.

Total US sale leaseback transactions accounted for $31.4 billion in 2022, according to real estate adviser, the highest year on record and nearly double the
volume of that kind of deal in 2018.

31 billion dollars in theft ladies and gentlemen. Private Equity are scammers.

Columbia student journalists have a lot to teach some veteran reporters about the importance of not making broad generalizations or treating protesters as a monolithic group.

Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale democracynow.org/2024/4/23/colu…

This is what it means to be a teacher.

Boeing whistleblower Ed Pierson just told the Senate, “I’m not going to sugar coat this: This is a criminal cover up.”

He says Boeing illegally stopped conducting thousands of quality control inspections and hundreds of airplanes left Boeing factories without those inspections.

Despite threats of suspension by Columbia & Barnard admin and intimidation by Zionists & NYPD, the crowd has only grown. Students, faculty, and alumni alike are showing solidarity with each other and with the Palestinian struggle. SO PROUD OF YALL AND KEEP GOING!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Rates are hitting the working class though. Its why a tax on the wealthy would be a much better option

“New Yorkers did not elect the most progressive, diverse Democratic supermajority in Council history to rubber stamp a return to the Giuliani era,” progressive Council Member Tiffany Cabán , a lawyer, told @POLITICO politi.co/49GAMNO

Fact Sheet on ⁦Governor Kathy Hochul⁩ ⁦Carl E. Heastie⁩ ⁦Sen. Stewart-Cousins⁩ proposed housing deal.

Spoiler Alert 🚨 it makes things a lot worse. fiscalpolicy.org/fact-sheet-on-…

Israel committing horrible attacks
Hochul: Silence

Israel attacks Iran
Hochul: Silence

Iran *retaliates*
Hochul: outraged, mobilizing national guard and state police.

This is corrupt. Governor Hochul once again speaks the language of a working class hero and legislates like a corporate overlord. Heastie and ASC willingness to fight for New Yorkers in need, amounts to a small speed bump and makes them complicit in these awful deals.

NYPD sure is confiscating a lot of mopeds

If New York Leaders are worried about Taxpayers leaving the state they should invest in the working class. Trickle down never worked. Its an excuse to help rich people instead of the people who need help crainsnewyork.com/op-ed/ny-maint… via Crain's New York

Why is New York State’s budget nearly two weeks overdue?

Let's talk about it 🧵

“We live in a country that is not only deeply unequal but deeply alone. That core belief that we have to do things alone needs to be challenged and thats what were doing here. Our current tax structure is destroying the fabric of this country” Patriotic Millionaires #HowToFixEverything

Money could've been spent on free healthcare and ending homelessness and hunger IJS.

Everyone is accountable except the gun lobby huh

Nobody has a problem with government handouts when they're the recipient. You see it with the PPP loans, tax credits, farm subsidies. Nobody who gets that stuff ever complains about it. It's only when somebody else gets some relief that it becomes a problem.

This session, will Governor Kathy Hochul listen to working and low-income New Yorkers or will she stay on the side of real estate, corporations and millionaires??

We demand more. Justice, dignity, and investment in New York's working communities.

#InvestInOurNY #TaxTheRich