Environment
Healthcare
Racial & Social Justice
Education
NYPAN supports, as a basic human right, free quality public education, through university and graduate school, including vocational schools. NYPAN supports fiscal equity for all school districts regardless of the local tax base and the full implementation of the judicial remedies which resulted from the Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit. NYPAN supports a richer curriculum for our children including athletics and the arts; after-school activities; and nutritious meal programs. NYPAN has always supported options for student debt reduction or student loan interest rate reduction, and now urges President-elect Biden to cancel all student loan debt.
Immigration
NYPAN believes that all who reside within the United States must have fair terms of work, residence, healthcare, and education. NYPAN supports sanctuary cities and would like to see New York become a sanctuary state. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity, regardless of their documentation status, and anyone who is threatened with deportation must receive due process. NYPAN supports the passage of the NY Dream and Liberty Acts.
Taxation
NYPAN supports equitable taxation of income and the full platform of “Invest in Our New York” including a billionaires tax to a Stock Transfer Tax. Progressive taxation must be reinstated on the federal and state levels, and tax laws that favor the super-rich must be repealed. The cap on Social Security (Federal Insurance Compensation Act/FICA) must be lifted. Estate taxes must be employed to reduce overwhelming wealth concentration among a tiny elite. Penalties must be imposed on anyone who uses shell companies or offshore accounts to hide assets.
Economic Justice
NYPAN believes that people are more important than profits. NYPAN supports FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights, including the idea of a Basic Minimum Income and/or a Guaranteed Jobs Program. NYPAN supports democratic business policies, such as worker-owned cooperatives and controls on wage disparities. NYPAN supports pay equity and believes that no one should work a 40-hour week and live in poverty. In fact, no one should live in poverty, period. The minimum wage should be a living wage.
Labor Rights
The massive war on unions and workers’ right to organize must be reversed. Federal and State laws punishing employers for violating union and employee rights are long overdue and must be enacted immediately.
Infrastructure & Transportation
NYPAN supports vigorous investment in infrastructure maintenance and development, especially in mass transit, roads and bridges, water treatment plants, and the national power grid, all of which will strengthen our economy, reduce environmental degradation, and provide honest work to millions.