Working Families

Contact:  Dan Levitan
NEW YORK – The Working Families Party and a broad coalition of environmentalists, labor and business leaders, workforce development experts and community organizations cheered today as Governor Paterson signed the landmark Green Jobs-Green New York Act.

The Act, championed by the Working Families Party, will create the most ambitious residential energy efficiency program [...]

We did it! Savings, jobs, and sustainability

Bill that one would green one million New York homes awaits Gov.’s pen

Contact: Dan Levitan
ALBANY – Working deep into the night, the State Senate passed a major bill championed by the Working Families Party to make energy efficiency upgrades to one million homes and businesses over the next five years.  Called the Green Jobs-Green New York Act, the bill would leverage private investment and Regional Greenhouse Gas [...]

Crain’s New York Business reporter Daniel Massey takes a look at the launch of the WFP’s Green Homes / Green Jobs push.  Tomorrow, the Center for Working Families will release a major report detailing how New York can green one million homes, create tens of thousands of jobs, and reduce our carbon footprint through energy [...]

Contact: Dan Levitan
Albany – A broad coalition of environmental, labor, and housing advocates convened by the Center for Working Families praised Governor Paterson’s “45 by 15″ plan announced in today’s State of the State address.  The plan calls for New York to meet 45% of its energy needs through improvements in energy efficiency [...]

Even as New Yorkers feel the pinch at the pump, energy guzzling buildings consume 16% of the New York’s annual energy supply, costing the average family over $3,700 in home energy a year. That’s not because anyone forgot to turn off their lights, but because most homes aren’t energy efficient.
Last Friday, the Center for Working [...]