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Here we go! GOP has figured out how to make the housing crisis worse:
NYU Furman Center researchers found that "if families were cut off after two years, 1.4 million households could lose their vouchers and public housing subsidies β largely working families with children."
READ: lnkd.in/gwp7zuaK
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YouTube video by RepAOC
Rep. AOC Delivers Floor Remarks Opposing Trumpβs Big Beautiful Bill
What she said!!
#KillTheBill!!
youtu.be/ifjaIGfRwPk
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Today, I felt pretty emotional knocking on the door of Richie Havensβ old house in Jersey City to GOTV.
When βFreedomβ is threatened by stormtrooper style fascists across the country his voice is truly missedβ¦ ππΌπΆππΆππΌ
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EuLP...
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New Jersey Citizen Action condemns Trump DOJ decision to terminate Lakeland Bankβs consent order
βItβs unconscionable that the Department of Justice would vacate its own consent order to a bank that violated the law by denying black and brown families equitable access to homeownership and other critical financial tools.β
- Dena Mottola Jaborska
NJCA
www.njcitizenaction.org/new_jersey_c...
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NY must step up to protect consumers as feds step back (Guest Opinion by Samuel Levine & Seth Frotman)
NY law does not prohibit unfair or abusive corporate practices, leaving consumers vulnerable. Proposed bill closes these gaps, write two consumer protection advocates.
βWe do not know if another crash is coming, but the warning signs are there.β Instead of strengthening guardrails, Trump regime is taking a wrecking ball to them. The CFPB is under siege & federal govt is making it easier for corporate giants to scam consumers.β
www.syracuse.com/opinion/2025...
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Mayor Baraka arrested for standing up to ICE!!
Everybody out. Gathering NOW at 620 frelinghuysen in Newark where Mayor Ras J. Baraka is being held.
#free the disappeared
#freeRas
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NJ Assembly Health Committee Chair Asw Carol Murphy, holds public hearing on impacts of Trumpβs proposed cuts to Medicaid & ACA etc in NJ.
NJCA joined stakeholders from across NJ to testify on details of devastating harms the cuts will unleash on 1.8 million New Jerseyans!!
#NoImmoralBudgetCuts
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Only need three or four Republicans to do the right thing!
Saturdayβs rallying call to action:
Keep up drum beat in the streets, in their offices and on their phones until they #StandUpFightBack, until they say #HandsOff and until they #VoteNOtoTheInsanity
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Thank you @knittygrittyjc.bsky.social and for all who came out !
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Trumpβs βLiberation Dayβ could mean recession in the US and pain worldwide | Steven Greenhouse
The US presidentβs tariffs are vengeful and impetuous β and will have immense costs with no clear goal
Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs result from a combination of impulsiveness, impetuousness & ignoranceβalthough some economists say that idiocy & economic illiteracy also play a big part. The world's stock clearly markets agree, losing trillions in value this week www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Sociologist thinking and writing about authoritarianism, democracy, LGBTQ issues, feminism. Author of The Stranger Next Door, Unbound, other books. Child of immigrants. Never Again for Anyone. #KnittyGrittyJC
Jersey City resident. Data enthusiast. NY Liberty fan π½
Not giving up, not giving in, not going back.
Retired New York Times labor reporter, senior fellow Century Foundation, author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
Jersey City Resident and Berkshires lover; lighting professional and community activist.
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Financial Justice Program Director at New Jersey Citizen Action: advocating for fair & safe banking services and lending products, safe & affordable housing, and strong community reinvestment. FIGHTING predatory lending, unfair debt collection & redlining
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