Sentences with phrase «said public advocate»
«By prohibiting employers from asking about salary history during the hiring process, we will ensure that being underpaid once does not condemn anyone to a lifetime of inequity,» said Public Advocate Letitia James, lead sponsor of legislation banning employers in New York City from asking applicants for their salary history.
https://www.payscale.com/
«Golden Dawn is an organization of Holocaust deniers, an organization that actually speaks admiringly of the Nazi movement,» said public advocate Bill de Blasio, who organized the press conference in Athens Square Park.
«For the second time in as many decades, Commissioner Bill Bratton has led New York City's finest, keeping our city and communities safe,» said Public Advocate Letitia James in a press release.
«They are making a mockery of the system,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who sponsored the bill as part of a larger push for legislation to close loopholes that he argues reward bad behavior.
«I strongly support the Mayor's move to focus the juvenile justice system more on prevention and less on detention,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio in a statement.
«I don't think it's an accident,» said Public Advocate Letitia James, who is co-sponsoring the bill permitting the council's panel.
«Enough is enough,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who called on Weiner to withdraw from the race.
«The Department of Education's response to de facto school segregation was delayed for years and years,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
De Blasio aides said the public advocate met with Shah in 2011 as Shah was hoping to reduce property taxes on some buildings with low - income tenants.
«Even with restorations, this year's budget dance has taken a toll on a system worn thin by years of cuts,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.»
I thought there were good ideas,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who applauded Quinn's focus on early education and the need for more and higher - quality affordable housing units.
«I don't think he offered a bigger vision... about where we're going,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who described the mayor's contentious tone toward labor unions and Albany as «classic Michael Bloomberg.»
«There continues to be a humanitarian crisis, and it is still being inadequately addressed,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
That's why it's important that on this May Day, that we remind ourselves of who we are as Americans, remind ourselves that this was a country built on the back of immigrants,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«Too many pedestrians are killed and injured crossing our City's streets, and often are not protected by the right of way law,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«Sadly, today's news is the latest in a long line of wrong and improper use of discretionary funds,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, a Democratic mayoral contender.
«I am also deeply disappointed that once again, the Mayor has failed to fulfill his campaign promise to provide universal free lunch,» said Public Advocate Letitia James, in her response to the mayor's preliminary budget.
Turso said Public Advocate contender Bill de Blasio had nearly 2,000 illegal posters taken down by his department, adding up to about $ 150,000.
Adriano has been a champion for uplifting working families and empowering our communities,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«Affordable housing is at crisis levels in our city, with vacancy rates in the single digits,» said public advocate Letitia James.
«No New Yorker should be subjected to live in a hazardous home,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«Every student in this city deserves an equitable, quality education,» said Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James.
«I come here today to lend my voice to support these workers and to demand that we lift their wages,» said Public Advocate Letitia «Tish» James on Mon., Oct. 20th.
«The Board of Elections may have just spared New York from becoming a national embarrassment on Election Night,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
My thoughts and prayers are with Officer Holder's family, loved ones, and the entire NYPD during this incredibly difficult time,» said Public Advocate Tish James in a statement.
I am honored to stand with Mayor de Blasio as we work together to end the stop - and - frisk era and safeguard the civil liberties of all New Yorkers,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«District Attorney Ken Thompson was committed to bringing equity to Brooklyn, and to making our borough safer and fairer for all,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«I am the face of instant runoff, let me remind you,» said Public Advocate Letitia James at Tuesday's news conference, on the steps of City Hall.
«All of this is because people of color lack access to preventative measures,» said the Public Advocate.
Together, we must ensure that low - income and middle class New Yorkers have access to affordable housing in all five boroughs,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«The BQE is an integral thoroughfare that millions of New Yorkers depend on every day to travel throughout the five boroughs,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
«We are taking a hashtag and turning it into legislation,» said Public Advocate Letitia James, in a nod to the #metoo movement.
«It's simple: no child should go hungry at school,» said Public Advocate Letitia James.
Not exact matches
«We were encouraged by many pieces of the bill that align with what we've been saying, in particular a ban on paid prioritization and blocking are things we have advocated for,» says Althea Erickson, Etsy's head of public policy.
Harvard public policy professor and behavioral economist Iris Bohnet says one solution to solving this issue is «micro-sponsorship,» which is the act of advocating for a colleague who has been wronged.
King also said in a response to an open letter from NYC public advocate Laetitia James, «We welcome the opportunity to work with anyone that can help us reduce potential discrimination in the Airbnb community.»
That didn't happen in 2014 and 2015; that is, if you assume Poloz said then in private some of things he is now advocating in public.
«Folks from all over this city — including many Council members, including the public advocate and the comptroller — have been fighting for Fair Fares for years now and just this week, we've taken an enormous step forward thanks to the members of the City Council, [and specifically] Speaker Corey Johnson,» he said.
Better Markets, a non-profit organization that advocates for the public interest on Wall Street, says a potential promotion by Williams to lead the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would reward failure - because the San Francisco Fed failed to prevent widespread customer abuses at San Francisco - based banking behemoth Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), which it's supposed to supervise.
Rashad Robinson, executive director of online racial justice organization Color of Change, said in a statement late Tuesday that while he applauded Uber's newfound transparency, «the onus is now on Kalanick and Uber's leadership team to prove that all this public soul - searching isn't just a public relations ploy and to work with advocates and experts to meaningfully increase diversity at the company.»
I don't advocate getting rid of religion per say just for it to stay out of the publics business, the fact is religion can't seem to do that.
Under previous popes, liberal Catholic nuns, politicians and theologians were castigated by church leaders, said John Gehring, a writer and advocate at the group Faith in Public Life.
Baird's contemporary advocate of «an earnest ministry» noted that the Sunday School, the cheap tract, and the religious periodical had become «competitors» with the pulpit «for the public mind,» and concluded that the ministers would have to turn on more heat.112 Charles G. Finney, always more blunt in saying what many of his Congregational and Presbyterian brethren really thought, openly advocated the creation of excitement in order to attract the attention of the unconverted — a view with which, as we have noted, Horace Bushnell was inclined to agree.
«MGA is the leading advocate for the state's food industry, representing the business interests of retailers and their suppliers in daily communication with legislators, regulatory agencies and the public,» the association says.
The chief executive of the Public Health Association, Michael Moore, said it was clear that some influence had been «brought to bear» and consumer and health advocates would be pushing to have the website reinstated.
By breastfeeding in public we become so to say advocates of breastfeeding to other mothers or young teenagers.
While Schakowsky's bill was welcomed by school cafeteria managers and food - safety advocates, industry officials said the dissemination of safety records could stoke unnecessary public fears and prove difficult for cafeteria managers to interpret.
In his first public comments since actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it is «the political silly season» and that he is focused on a downstate snowstorm and the state budget agreement.
Email blasts from the two liberal organizations note that Avella used to be an outspoken opponent of charters — and co-location in particular — and yet voted «yes» on the Senate one - house budget that education advocates say pushes more of the controversial co-locations and hikes state aid to charters at the expense of traditional public schools.
North Country Regional Chairman Shaun Gilliand in the letter pointed to the entrance of actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon in the race, which he said puts Cuomo «in trouble and the people of New York are realizing it.»