Author: Tiffany Brooks
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Women Leaders Pen Letter To Cuomo, Ask Him To Support Local Wage Standards
In a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature, 130 of the state’s most powerful women urged the passage of #RaiseUpNY legislation that would allow cities and counties to raise wages above the state’s minimum of $8 an hour. The #RaiseUpNY bill (S.6516/A.9036) is a plan to allow individual cities and counties within the…
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State Facilities Should be Buying from the Backyard, Group Says
March 27, 2014 As the state’s closure of four upstate prisons pushes forward, a group dedicated to closing prisons and boosting agriculture upstate is pushing for a bill that encourages state facilities to purchase locally grown products. The group Milk Not Jails staged a “picnic” on the Million Dollar Staircase in the Capitol on Monday…