NYC Mayor de Blasio Releases 13-Point Plan to Address Income Inequality
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Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio released his progressive agenda on Tuesday, including a 13-point plan to address income inequality.
The agenda, co-signed by progressive labor leaders, activists and members of Congress, calls for an increased minimum wage, national paid sick leave and an opposition to trade deals that give power to corporations.
Other goals on the agenda include comprehensive immigration reform, allowing for refinancing of student loan debt and the close of tax loopholes that benefit millionaires, corporations and CEOs.
Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison, in a message posted on the website of the agenda, praises its effort to “return us to citizenship, the happily adult responsibility of citizens to each other: how to ensure a livable wage for all of us; how to improve schools in all our neighborhoods; how to protect working class jobs and pensions from predators who rely on exploitation and selfish behavior; how to welcome the immigrant, the ‘huddled masses’ we ALL [except for Native Americans and slaves] once were.”
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