Kate Lisa/Johnson Newspaper Corp.Workers and activitsts with the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, New York Immigration Coalition, Worker’s Center of Central NY and other organizations rallied for $3.5 billion for essential workers in the concourse beneath the state Capitol on Wednesday afternoon.
Kate Lisa/Johnson Newspaper Corp.Sara Curtis, left, advocacy and communications specialist at Worker Justice Center spoke on the concourse beneath the state Capitol on Wednesday afternoon to fight for $3.5 billion for essential workers in the state budget.
Kate Lisa/Johnson Newspaper Corp. Former Hudson resident Dawedo Sanon, with the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, shared her story during a rally for $3.5 billion in assistance for excluded essential workers and urged lawmakers to include aid in the upcoming state budget.
Kate Lisa/Johnson Newspaper Corp.Workers and activitsts with the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, New York Immigration Coalition, Worker’s Center of Central NY and other organizations rallied for $3.5 billion for essential workers in the concourse beneath the state Capitol on Wednesday afternoon.
Kate Lisa/Johnson Newspaper Corp.Sara Curtis, left, advocacy and communications specialist at Worker Justice Center spoke on the concourse beneath the state Capitol on Wednesday afternoon to fight for $3.5 billion for essential workers in the state budget.
Kate Lisa/Johnson Newspaper Corp. Former Hudson resident Dawedo Sanon, with the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, shared her story during a rally for $3.5 billion in assistance for excluded essential workers and urged lawmakers to include aid in the upcoming state budget.
ALBANY — Activists and employees Wednesday sought justice, and $3.5 billion in the upcoming state budget, for certain essential workers who have been left out, or ineligible, to receive federal and state assistance during the coronavirus pandemic.
Hundreds of thousands of New York essential workers, such as undocumented immigrants, cash economy workers and people recently released from state prison, have largely been ineligible to receive unemployment benefits, stimulus checks and other federal and state economic relief programs in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis. The number of estimated excluded workers equals roughly $3.5 billion in supplemental benefits.
