Jo Anne Simon

May 10, 2024 | timesunion.com | Brad Hoylman-Sigal |Jo Anne Simon

New York workers are in trouble. More than $1 billion is stolen from over 2 million hard-working New Yorkers each year by their employers. Wage theft runs rampant because the state agency tasked with enforcing the Labor Law doesn’t have the capacity to address violations. That’s why we are advocating for the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act to expand public enforcement.

May 17, 2023 | gothamgazette.com | Jo Anne Simon

Kids at school (photo: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office) The literacy rate amongst children is at a crisis level: two-thirds of fourth-graders nationwide are unable to read proficiently. This represents a complete failure to prepare our students for the most basic of life skills, in part due to the continued use of flawed literacy instruction methods. New York’s proficient reading rates of 30% are even worse than the national average.