Featured Work: Clean and Safe Ports

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The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest port system on the east coast. Unfortunately, one of our most important and prominent industries is also characterized by worker exploitation and pollution. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Solidarity

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ALIGN was formed and continues to be built on the principle of solidarity—“being there” for someone else’s struggle as well as your own. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Civic Engagement

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Educating and mobilizing more voters in poor and low-income communities and communities of color is critical to building support for progressive solutions in New York City and State. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Good Food, Good Jobs

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Millions of New Yorkers live in “food deserts,” neighborhoods in which the absence of full-service supermarkets denies residents access both to affordable healthy food and to quality jobs with decent wages and benefits. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Green Jobs

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We believe it is not only possible but urgently necessary to develop a 21st century economy that both protects our environment and creates good green jobs.  Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Getting Our Money’s Worth

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Our government spends more than $3 billion dollars a year on corporate subsidies, but these investments too often fail to create the good jobs and community benefits New Yorkers need. Visit Project Page

NY Care Congress makes history

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This weekend we made history. Over 500 care workers, people with disabilities, seniors, union retirees, faith leaders, advocates, elected officials and concerned citizens packed Pace University to share stories and to envision how we'll collectively ensure that millions of seniors and people with disabilities receive the care they need to live with dignity, and that care workers receive the dignity and respect they deserve.

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Featured Resources

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Newly released Census Bureau statistics, including poverty data, show that the economic recovery has not yet reached a majority of New Yorkers. The severe impact the recession has had on our neighborhoods and boroughs drove poverty, unemployment and income inequality to unacceptably high levels. Those levels did not decrease in 2011.

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Featured Story

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What does caring mean to you? I’m Nancy Salazar, and I'd like to tell you what caring means to me.  Being a home health aide is hard work – I wake up early, so I can get to work at 8am, and my workday doesn’t end until 8pm.  But I don’t mind the hours.

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