VISION
Every New Yorker deserves to breathe clean air, live in safe and affordable housing, receive a high-quality public education, access comprehensive healthcare and universal childcare, and live in well-resourced communities on a livable planet.
But for decades, corporate aligned elected officials have underinvested in working-class neighborhoods and instead prioritized the desires of greedy corporations and the ultra-rich.
A different New York is possible: one where everyone has what they need to build a foundation on which they can thrive. We just need New York’s ultra-rich to pay what they owe in taxes. The Invest in Our New York Campaign aims to support every New Yorker and our communities by:
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Increasing taxes on New York’s wealthiest and big corporations to ensure they pay what they owe
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Putting forward a plan for state spending that prioritizes the needs of low-income and working-class people, communities of color, and New York’s most impacted by the affordability crisis; and
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Shifting the state’s economic development efforts away from corporate giveaways and instead toward resourcing our public programs.
PAST SUCCESSES
In the past, the Invest In Our New York campaign has secured major changes to an unfair tax system, generating billions of dollars in new public funds that were directly invested in supporting working-class and low-income New Yorkers. This included:
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Amending state law so millionaires and big corporations paid a little more in taxes, generating $10 billion in new public funds to invest in our communities.
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$2.4 billion in emergency rental assistance program that helped tenants across the state, including undocumented people, pay rent debt accrued during the COVID crises.
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$4.2 billion that was owed to New York public schools.
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$2 billion to support 130,000 “excluded workers” who help form the backbone of our economy, for income lost during COVID - the first fund of its kind in the U.S.
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$1 billion fund to support small businesses, including $800 million for small business grants and $200 million in small business tax credits.
STEERING COMMITTEE
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 – 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