Center for Working Families

Template:TOCnestleft Center for Working Families is affiliated to the New York Working Families Party.

Founded in 2006 by long-time community activists, veteran union organizers and experienced policy advocates, the...

Center for Working Families aims to bring innovative ideas into the public debate, to provide elected leaders with the research support to make bold policy proposals, and to strategize with organizations and activists to build effective campaigns to enact them.

By combining policy capacity; our extensive network of relationships with membership organizations, policy makers and experts; and a focus on smart campaigns, we can make real gains to improve the lives of working families in New York .

People

Advisory Board circa 2008

• Hector Figueroa, Secretary-Treasurer SEIU Local 32BJ

• Kevin Powell, Author and Activist

• Jon Kest, Director NY ACORN

• Brad Lander, Pratt Institute

• Nathan Newman, Progressive States Network

• Patrick Gaspard, Executive Vice President SEIU Local 1199

• Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Drum Major Institute

• Ed Ott, Executive Director NYC Central Labor Council

• Adrianne Shropshire, New York Jobs with Justice

• Ana Polanco, UNITE HERE

• James Parrott, Chief Economist Fiscal Policy Institute

• Bill Lynch, Bill Lynch Associates

• Karen Scharff, Executive Director Citizen Action of New York

• Andrew White, Center for NYC Affairs, The New School

• Bob Master, Political Director Communication Workers of America

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