Working Families

Today’s Daily News today covered the the WFP’s endorsement of progressive Manhattan DA candidate Richard Aborn:

Working Families taps ‘progressive’ Aborn in DA race
BY MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Thursday, May 28th 2009, 4:00 AM
The Working Families Party endorsed Manhattan district attorney candidate Richard Aborn on Wednesday night, giving him the party’s progressive stamp of approval and its aggressive [...]

Crain’s Insider ran this brief today on the WFP’s statewide endorsement process:
 

WFP Nod Is Hot Ticket
More than 1,000 candidates across the state are seeking the endorsement of the labor-backed Working Families Party, the most in its 11-year history. Contenders seeking the party’s backing include more than 100 City Council candidates and all four Manhattan district attorney hopefuls. The [...]

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 [...]

Crain’s New York Business takes a look at the impact of the WFP’s full throttle campaign to balance the state budget in a “balanced” way – through prudent spending cuts and rolling back tax cuts for the wealthy:

Tax hike is textbook politics
Working Families Party rallies popular support, legislative action in Albany
By Erik Engquist
Published: March 15, 2009 [...]

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 [...]

Syndicated columnist and author David Sirota takes a look today at the importance of down-ballot races for building progressive power.  It’s a strategy, as Sirota notes, that the WFP has used to build real power for working people here in New York:
Those other elections
By David Sirota
Updated: 12/04/2008 10:29:57 PM MST
A month after Barack Obama’s triumphant [...]

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 [...]

City Hall takes a look at the WFP’s coming effort to elect more progressives to the New York City Council next year.  (Note: Working Families Party members are yet to endorse anyone for next year’s races and endorsement interviews won’t be held until this Spring).

Relative Progress for Working Families Gives Hope for Greater Muscle [...]

We couldn’t have said it any better ourselves. The Nation magazine has joined the call to vote for Barack Obama on the Working Families ballot line:

By Katrina vanden Heuvel
“In an otherwise desultory fall election, there is one lever New York voters can pull on Election Day that will make a real difference – that of [...]

WNYC’s Amy Eddings and the Albany Times Union’s Rick Karlin and Irene Liu take a look at the chances the Democrats (with an assist from Working Families) have to retake the State Senate after a generation of Republican control.
Senate Republicans have blocked nearly every important piece of reform that working families in New York need, [...]