Working Families

First Campaigner Update:
1. Keeping Score: Julissa Ferreras Wins, Debi Rose Uncertain
2. Bread & Butter: The Budget Fight, Saving Affordable Housing
3. Press Hits: WFP in the News
4. Survey Time: Your Opinions Count

Contents
1. Update from Executive Director Dan Cantor
2. March 5th events in support of Fair Share Tax Reform
3. Live from the campaign trai
4a. Take action: Support Green Jobs!
4b. Take action: Save Affordable Housing!

The Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel offer’s her take on the Working Families Party’s Fair Share Tax Reform campaign in a new Editor’s Cut column:
What Will New York Do?
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 02/23/2009 @ 2:32pm
Now that thirty years of deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy have failed so spectacularly, creating an economic [...]

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The Working Families Party is committed to safe, affordable housing for all New Yorkers. This year, we join a broad campaign of over 100 housing justice groups, religious congregations and labor unions in calling for the repeal of vacancy decontrol.
Affordable housing is crucial for the future of New York. With over 1 [...]

Praises Murphy’s “first-hand understanding of what it takes to create jobs”
GLENS FALLS – Citing his hands-on experience with job creation and commitment to strengthening New York’s middle class, the Working Families Party has endorsed Scott Murphy in the special election for the 20th Congressional District.
“In tough times like these we need leaders with experience and [...]

For Immediate Release: February 10, 2009
Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party today released the following statement on the Fair Share Tax Reform Act introduced today in the Senate. It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, WFP Executive Director:
“While Governor Paterson continues to ask everyone except the wealthy to contribute to closing the state’s budget gap, [...]