the invest in our new york act

Can Raise $40 Billion in New Public Money to invest in Working-Class Communities

We can generate new public funds by raising taxes exclusively on the wealthiest people and corporations in our state. The Invest In Our New York Act is a plan to:

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  • Transform NY's tax system: Raise taxes only on NY's wealthiest millionaires, billionaires & corporations… raising $40 to $50 billion in new annual public funds

  • Fund $40 billion in new investments: Pass a state budget and bold spending package that puts everyday New Yorkers first and reflects the needs of our communities

 
It's time for Governor Hochul and the Legislature to Invest in our communities, our New York.
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Our state budget needs an agenda that places the needs of middle and working class, low–income and impoverished New Yorkers first:

Fully invest in New York working-class communities

  • $10.5 billion → Public Education and Childcare

  • $10.4 billion → Housing

  • $10.5 billion → Addressing the Climate Crisis in New York State

  • $4.5 billion, at least → Workers, Wages and Public benefits

New York has one of the largest economies in the world and has the highest concentration of wealth in the country. New Yorkers earning $30 million and above, just 0.4% of our population, are holding $7 trillion in wealth.

The ultra-wealthy profit from living and doing business here, it's time they pay taxes just like the rest of us. It's time to raise public money by taxing the rich, it's time to invest public money into our working-class communities, our New York.

The wealthiest profit from living and doing business here and from our workers, our communities and our public infrastructure—It's time they pay what they owe NY.

Because unlike the rest of us…
The richest millionaires and billionaires in our state don’t pay taxes on the majority of their wealth.

Make the richest pay what they owe our state

Fully Invest…

$10.5 billion toward public education and childcare

$10.4 billion toward housing statewide

  • To increase access for New York’s most vulnerable
  • And to drive down the costs of rent and utilities

$10.5B - To address the Climate Crisis in New York State

$4.5 billion, at least, toward workers, wages and public benefits

Raise New, Annual Public Money by

  • Transforming New York’s tax system so the ultra-wealthy and wealthy corporations pay what they owe
  • Ending New York’s failed “economic development” corporate giveaways and shifting those public resources toward the Invest in Our New York spending plan.

Make the richest pay what they owe our state

If passed, the suite of legislation included in the Invest in Our New York Act would represent the single largest measure taken to close New York States’s inequality gap in decades. 

If passed, the historic suite of legislation included in the Invest In Our New York Act would represent the single largest measure taken to close New York’s inequality gap in decades. 

Invest In Our New York Campaign - Steering Committee

The Invest in Our New York Act raises $50 billion so we can take care of each other and rebuild our economy by ending tax breaks for the wealthiest New Yorkers. The Invest in Our New York Act raises $50 billion so we can take care of each other and rebuild our economy by ending tax breaks for the wealthiest New Yorkers. The Invest in Our New York Act raises $50 billion so we can take care of each other and rebuild our economy by ending tax breaks for the wealthiest New Yorkers.

Invest In Our New York Campaign - Coalition Members

  • – 89th Street Tenants Unidos Association
  • – Bend the Arc: Jewish Action Long Island
  • – Bend the Arc: Jewish Action-Riverdale NY
  • – Brooklyn for Peace
  • – Buffalo DSA
  • – Capital District DSA
  • – Carroll Gardens Association
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  • – CCoHOPE Indivisible
  • – Center for Community Alternatives
  • – Chinese-American Planning Council
  • – CNY Indivisible
  • – CNY Solidarity Coalition
  • – Communities for Local Power
  • – Consumer Directed Action of New York (CDANY)
  • – Downtown Women For Change
  • – DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving)
  • – Elders and Allies of Free The People ROC
  • – For the Many
  • – Fossil Free Tompkins
  • – Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York
  • – Free The People Rochester
  • – Greater NYC for Change
  • – Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network
  • – Housing Rights Initiative (HRI)
  • – Housing Works, Inc.
  • – Hunger Free America
  • – Indivisible Harlem
  • – Indivisible Mohawk Valley
  • – Indivisible Nation BK
  • – Indivisible Sunnyside
  • – Indivisible Ulster
  • – Inwood Indivisible
  • – Irvington Activists
  • – Ithaca DSA
  • – Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
  • – Labor-Religion Coalition of NYS
  • – Literacy Assistance Center
  • – LittleSis
  • – Literacy Assistance Center
  • – Long Island Acitvists
  • – Long Island Jobs with Justice
  • – Main Street Alliance
  • – Metro New York Health Care for All
  • – Mid-Hudson Valley DSA
  • – Nassau County Democratic Socialists of America
  • – Nassau NOW
  • – Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow
  • – New York Energy Democracy Alliance
  • – New York Sustainable Business Council (NYSBC)
  • – New Yorkers Against Gun Violence
  • – NY Renews
  • – NYCD16-Invisible
  • – NYPAN Greene
  • – One Fair Wage
  • – Parents Supporting Parents NY
  • – Peace Action of Staten Island
  • – PEER/NYPAN, Suffolk Cty, Progressive East End Reformers
  • – Physicians for a National Health Program, New York Metro Chapter
  • – Positive Action Mohawk Valley
  • – Progressive Schenectady
  • – Putnam Progressives
  • – Release Aging People in Prison Campaign
  • – Resource Generation NYC
  • – Rise and Resist
  • – Rochester Democratic Socialists of America
  • – Rockland United
  • – Save Our Storefronts
  • – Street Vendor Project, Urban Justice Center
  • – Suffolk Progressives
  • – Sunrise Movement NYC
  • – SURJ Rochester (SURJ ROC)
  • – Swipe Out Hunger
  • – Tenants Political Action Committee
  • – To Do List Indivisible
  • – Together We Will Long Island
  • – Tompkins County Progressives
  • – Upper West Side Action Group: MoveOn/Indivisible/SwingLeft
  • – Uptown Community Democrats
  • – Village Independent Democrats
  • – WE ACT for Environmental Justice
  • – Westchester for Change
  • – Worker Justice Center of New York