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Good Jobs New York: The Project Good Jobs New York promotes policies that hold government officials and corporations accountable to the taxpayers, particularly when economic development agencies give expensive subsidies to large corporations that threaten to leave New York City. GJNY examines these retention deals with a critical eye, to advance the principles that taxpayers have the right to know the details of these deals, to have input on them through their elected representatives and to be assured that they actually create new, good jobs for New Yorkers. The staff of Good Jobs New York investigates and publicizes the ways in which public resources are currently being used. GJNY has compiled a list of major economic development deals in New York City. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, we launched "Reconstruction Watch," which documents the allocation of nearly $20 billion in redevelopment funds. Additionally, for two years, we have also been investigating and exposing the hidden taxpayer subsidies and undemocratic processes by which New York's two baseball teams, the Yankees and the Mets, received a total of $1.2 billion in subsidies to build their new stadiums. Urging more transparency and accountability, we have passed this information on to neighborhood residents who fought the Yankee project, and to elected officials and the news media.
Good Jobs New York is a joint project of two organizations: Good Jobs First is the nation's leading resource center for grassroots groups and public officials seeking to make economic development subsidies more accountable and effective. It also promotes smart growth policies that enhance the well being of working families. The Fiscal Policy Institute is a nonpartisan research and education organization focusing on New York's tax, budget, economic and related public policy issues. Founded in 1991, FPI's work is intended to further the development and implementation of public policies that create a strong economy in which prosperity is broadly shared by all New Yorkers. FPI has offices in Albany and New York City. Staff Bettina Damiani, Project Director: 212.721.7996 Allison Lack, Research Analyst: 212.721.4865 Kristen Lanham, Research Intern: 212.721.4865 Find out more about the staff of GJNY and GJF or of FPI. |
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