STATE BUDGET VIRTUAL TOWN HALL

March 24, 2022  3:00 to 4:30

View the Virtual Town Hall here

New York State Council of Churches and New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness will be holding a Virtual Town Hall to compare the one house budget resolutions to the Governor’s proposed budget. Senate Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie enter budget negotiations with the Governor (Three people in a room) to render a final budget to be voted on by the Senate and Assembly by April 1.

We want advocates and faith leaders to understand where we are in the budget negotiation process and what they can do to influence the final outcome in the last days to build a more just New York.

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Panelists for State Budget Town Hall include:

Ron Deutsch, New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness (Budget Overview and Wages)

The Reverend Peter Cook, New York State Council of Churches(Theological and Ethical Reflections)

DeDe Hill, Schuyler Institute, (Child Care)

Iziah Thompson, New York Housing Conference (Housing)

Bob Cohen, Citizen Action, (Climate Justice)  

Rona Shapiro, SEIU1199 (Home Care)

Tom Speaker, Reinvent Albany (Economic Development,

Mark Hannay, New York Metro Health, (Coverage for All and Essential Plan)

Speaker to be Determined, (Excluded Worker Fund)

Speaker to be Determined, (Wage Theft)

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