Over the weekend, thousands of New Yorkers came together to say: No cuts to working people to fund tax breaks for billionaires and corporations! The Action Lab cosponsored this march organized by local labor unions and community allies, including many of our anchor partners like Make the Road NY and Citizen Action NY. Congress is moving forward with devastating proposals to cut two trillion dollars from Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, housing, and food assistance and other vital programs to fund a massive tax give-away to the wealthy and corporations. Unelected billionaires have been given free rein to shut down services and force layoffs for their own ends. But we say enough is enough!
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