Working Families

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, [...]

For Immediate Release: January 30, 2009
Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party released today the following statement on Mayor Bloomberg’s budget address. It can be attributed to Dan Cantor, Working Families Party Executive Director:
“The catastrophic budget picture presented by Mayor Bloomberg today shows again the desperate need to ask the wealthiest New Yorkers to contribute their [...]

EJ McMahon just can’t help himself. The Manhattan Institute’s “Director of the Empire Center for New York Policy” proves in a series of op-eds that he’s more far-right ideologue than economist and more worried about pushing his agenda than the facts. Last week it was the Daily News, today it [...]

The New York Times today points to the increasingly likelihood that New York will raise taxes on the wealthy to help balance the budget.  That’s good news for anyone who thinks school children, the elderly, and the disabled shouldn’t have to bear the burden of the state’s multi-billion dollar budget deficit alone:

Warning to rich New [...]

Over three hundred community activists and organizers gathered at the “SHARE” party on Thursday night at Brooklyn’s Soda bar to launch a grassroots campaign to fight Governor Paterson’s devastating proposed budget cuts.
The activists, many of whom joined political organizing for the first time during the Obama campaign, hope to build support for a millionaire’s tax [...]

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In his State of the State address yesterday, Gov. Paterson called for “shared sacrifice” to get New York through one of the worst recessions we’ve seen in decades.
But the budget proposal the Governor presented last month would mean anything but.
Billions of dollars in cuts to healthcare, education, and hundreds of essential public services.  [...]

WFP Director Dan Cantor was a guest on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show today discussing Gov. David Paterson’s unfair budget proposal. On Tuesday, the Governor offered a budget that raises billions in taxes on the middle class, makes devastating cuts to services we need, and all without asking the wealthy to share the burden.
Listen to the [...]

Contact:  Dan Levitan
According to a poll conducted by Kiley & Company, and commissioned by the Working Families Party, the vast majority of New Yorkers are in strong opposition to the planned cuts by Gov. David Paterson and are in strong support of a solution to the State’s budget crisis that uses a combination of both [...]

Working Families Party Executive Director Dan Cantor argues the merits of raising taxes on millionaires to help close New York’s budget gap in an op-ed today in the Daily News:

To help stop budget bleeding, raise taxes on the rich
By Dan Cantor
Wednesday, November 19th 2008, 4:00 AM
After a week of posturing [...]

Contact: Dan Levitan
The Working Families Party today released the following statement on tomorrow’s special legislative session. It can be attributed to Bob Master, Working Families Party Co-Chair:
“Tomorrow, Governor Paterson is asking New York’s working families to swallow billions in budget cuts. The cuts will negatively impact millions of New Yorkers: SUNY and CUNY students, [...]