Our Vision: A Fair Deal for Every New Yorker
A Fair Deal exposes and ends the quiet cost-shift that’s drained New Yorkers for decades. Major corporations have held wages below the cost of living while relying on taxpayers to subsidize their payrolls through public assistance programs. That’s not a “free market” — it’s forced charity. Our plan restores FDR’s original principle that a full-time worker should earn enough to stand on their own, tying wages to real living-cost data and ensuring taxpayers aren’t footing the bill for corporate underpayment.
The Plan: How We Get There
These pillars of A Fair Deal are designed to raise wages, cut household costs, and restore trust that your tax dollars are being used responsibly.
• Fair pay tied to real living-cost data, not politics.
• Lower, fairer utility bills and a modern, accountable grid.
• Stronger, more stable communities where families can plan ahead instead of living in constant crisis.
Fair Compensation & Fiscal Responsibility Act
This act ties wage floors to independent living-cost data instead of politics or guesswork. It phases in region-based wage standards so:
• Workers earn enough from one full-time job to cover basic needs without constant crisis.
• Taxpayers stop subsidizing poverty wages through programs meant as a safety net, not a business model.
• Small businesses get predictability and a level playing field with large corporations that currently offload costs onto the public.
NY Energy Cost-Cut & Innovation Act
New Yorkers should not be paying record-high bills while our grid leaks energy and corporate profits soar. This act:
• Caps abusive rate hikes and demands real justification and transparency for increases.
• Modernizes the grid and rewards projects that lower costs and improve reliability, not just boost shareholder returns.
• Keeps more New York–generated energy in New York communities instead of shipping value out-of-state.
Community Stability
When wages cover the basics and utility bills are under control, families can finally plan ahead. This vision is about:
• Fewer evictions and less constant crisis for working families.
• More money staying local with small businesses, instead of disappearing into higher bills and hidden subsidies.
• Stable, safer neighborhoods where people can put down roots, raise kids, and know that the rules are fair and consistent.