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    The Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council urges the New York State Senator John A. DeFrancisco to support moving the New York State Fair Pay Act out of the Senate Finance Committee and to the legislative floor. The letter argues that equal pay is critical for families' economic security and the state's economic recovery. It also states that reducing the gender pay gap will help decrease New York's growing income inequality. The caucus urges support for the bill to narrow the pay gap, protect workers, and reduce poverty in New York.

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    The Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council urges the New York State Senator John A. DeFrancisco to support moving the New York State Fair Pay Act out of the Senate Finance Committee and to the legislative floor. The letter argues that equal pay is critical for families' economic security and the state's economic recovery. It also states that reducing the gender pay gap will help decrease New York's growing income inequality. The caucus urges support for the bill to narrow the pay gap, protect workers, and reduce poverty in New York.

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    NY Fair Pay Act

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    The Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council urges the New York State Senator John A. DeFrancisco to support moving the New York State Fair Pay Act out of the Senate Finance Committee and to the legislative floor. The letter argues that equal pay is critical for families' economic security and the state's economic recovery. It also states that reducing the gender pay gap will help decrease New York's growing income inequality. The caucus urges support for the bill to narrow the pay gap, protect workers, and reduce poverty in New York.

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    THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

    PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS
    250 BROADWAY
    NEW YORK, NY 10007

    May 25, 2011

    New York State Senator John A. DeFrancisco


    Chair, Committee on Finance
    416 Capitol
    Albany, NY 12247

    Dear Senator DeFrancisco,

    The Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council urges you to support the movement of the
    New York State Fair Pay Act out of the Senate Finance Committee and onto the floor. New York
    cannot afford to delay efforts to improve pay equity. Equal pay for women is critical to families’
    economic security and our state’s economic recovery. For the first time, American women make up
    roughly half of the nation’s workforce: nearly four in ten mothers are primary breadwinners in
    their households and nearly two-thirds are significant earners.

    What’s more, the Fair Pay Act will help to reduce the ever-increasing income gap between New
    York’s rich and poor. This bill is critical to providing both enforcement and remedies to the wage
    disparities which impact millions of New Yorkers with every pay check. During this time of
    economic crisis it is perhaps most important that we have pay equity and worker protections in
    New York State.

    This is more than just a women's issue and a fairness issue - it's a civil rights issue. The New York
    City Council unanimously showed its support for equal pay for equal work in 2008 when it passed
    a resolution, introduced by Progressive Caucus Member Letitia James, calling on the New York
    State Legislature to pass the New York State Fair Pay Act. It's time for the state of New York to get
    on the right side of history.

    We urge your support of the New York State Fair Pay Act (A.6130/S.2200) so that we can narrow
    the pay gap, protect workers and reduce poverty.

    Sincerely,
    The Members of the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council
    Brad Lander, Co-Chair Progressive Caucus, 39th Council District
    Melissa Mark-Viverito, Co-Chair Progressive Caucus, 8th Council District
    Margaret Chin, 1st Council District
    Jimmy Van Bramer, 26th Council District
    Letitia James, 35th Council District
    Daniel Dromm, 25th Council District
    Debi Rose, 49th Council District
    James Sanders, Jr., 31st Council District

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