CPD In The News

Small-donor participation in the state is low, which means that large donations wield significant influence in New York, even by the standards of other states.

“Health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry, and other corporate players make billions of dollars off of America’s illness — and they want to keep it that way,” said Jennifer Flynn Walker, director of mobilization and advocacy at the Center for Popular Democracy, an advocacy group th

The Justice Department's recent move is "absolutely outrageous," says Jennifer Flynn, a co-organizer of Birddog Nation, a national grassroots network of activists who hound candidates on health care, funded by Housing Works and the Center for Popular Democracy.

The prison-industrial complex also included financial services firm JP Morgan Chase & Co until recently. Under pressure from activist groups Make the Road New York & the Center for Popular Democracy, JP Morgan committed to stop funding private prison companies last week.

City officials in Newburgh threw their support behind a statewide initiative to regulate rental rates and bolster protections for tenants and landlords through universal rent control laws.

Mayor Steve Noble and Police Chief Egidio Tinti endorsed the proposal, which drew support from  Ulster County Sheriff Juan Figueroa and Saugerties Police Chief Joseph Sinagara last week.

Bowing to pressure from immigration activists, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank recently vowed to halt financing for private prisons and immigration detention centers—a move that directly affects CoreCivic and its chief competitor, Boca Raton, Fla.-based GEO Group Inc.

Before and after the vote, Common Council President Thomas DePietro reminded council members that the resolution to be voted on would not institute rent control or rent stabilization in Hudson, but rather “encourage our state government to allow us to make the decision for ourselves in the future

Among the “hard-line liberal groups and unions” the article refers to in its headline and lead is the Consortium of Citizens with Disabilities, a coalition of approximately 100 national disability organizations.

The Carried Interest Fairness Act is supported by the AFL-CIO, The Agenda Project, American Family Voices, American Federation of Government Employees, American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, American Postal Workers Union, Americans for Financ