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Economy and Society is Ballotpedia’s weekly review of the developments in corporate activism; corporate political engagement; and the Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) trends and events that characterize the growing intersection between business and politics.

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Mayor Adams takes heat for trying to water down NYC right-to-shelter law — ‘Beyond disturbing,’ say critics

Mayor Adams weathered a torrent of criticism Wednesday for his administration’s legal push to diminish the city’s right-to-shelter law, with detractors calling the move misguided and demanding the mayor reconsider.

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New York mayor and police criticized for lack of action over Jordan Neely’s death

Medical examiner confirmed on Wednesday that 30-year-old Black man died from compression to the neck

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Mayor Adams unveils plan to subsidize solar panels for low-income NYC homeowners, funding stream up in air

NEW YORK — Mayor Adams teamed up with Comptroller Brad Lander on Thursday to announce a pilot program that’d bankroll rooftop solar panel installations for working class homeowners in the city — but funding for the initiative isn’t locked in yet.

Tribune News Service

Americans want to invest in a clean energy future

We want to put our money where our aspirations are. Opponents of this responsible approach to investing derisively label it “woke” because they know that term creates confusion and for some, fear. So it’s a perfect wedge to divide us.

Chicago Sun-Times

NYC minority- and women-owned businesses losing out on city contracts

Rev. Reginald Bachus knows how hard it is to land a contract with the city as a Black business owner.

Tribune News Service

How Brooklyn's Much-Copied Diversity Plan Helped Throw its Best Middle School Into Chaos

After former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio changed the admissions rules at the school his kids graduated from, testing, safety, and excellence plummeted.

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NYC Mayor Adams demands ‘national czar’ for migrant crisis — a job Vice President Harris is already supposed to have

NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris may want a word.

Tribune News Service

Kentucky Threatens To Divest From 11 Banks Over Environmental And Social Policies

Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball (R) notified 11 banks that their ESG policies had harmed the state’s economy.

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Kentucky threatens to divest from 11 banks over ESG policies

On January 2, Kentucky State Treasurer Allison Ball (R) issued a statement notifying 11 banks that their ESG policies amounted to energy boycotts that harmed the state’s economy according to definitions passed into law last spring. The statement says the banks have 90 days to stop what Kentucky argues are…

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Midterm results could strengthen state opposition to ESG

Republican midterm gains could strengthen state opposition to ESG according to Roll Call

Ballotpedia

Uneven election night for New York Democrats draws out divisions within party

NEW YORK — In the end, the contest between Gov. Kathy Hochul and her Republican challenger, Rep. Lee Zeldin of Long Island, was not quite as close as some Democrats had feared in the final days of the New York governor’s race.

Tribune News Service

New York still vulnerable 10 years after Hurricane Sandy, protesters warn

Storm in 2012 had devastating impact on US’s biggest city but insufficient government action risks a repeat, demonstrators say

The Guardian - US

Rikers Island Sees 17th Prisoner Death This Year

Is a federal takeover of the troubled jail pending?

Reason

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Public Schools Experiencing 'White Flight'

Whether in response to pandemic closures or policy changes made in the name of "equity," people classified as white are fleeing government-run K-12 in startling numbers.

Tribune News Service

Rikers lapses contributed to 10 jail deaths in 2021 — report cites failure to check detainees, slow emergency responses, vacant posts

NEW YORK — An exhaustive report on 10 of the 16 deaths in 2021 in city jails details a range of staffing problems, systemic failures and mismanagement by jail staff that contributed to the fatalities.

WEKU

Major credit card companies are making it easier to track gun sales

The move will likely provoke the ire of gun rights advocates and lobbyists, who have argued that categorizing gun sales would unfairly flag an industry when most sales do not lead to mass shootings.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Gradual improvement at Rikers not enough when lives are at stake

We commend New York City Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and Comptroller Brad Lander for their unannounced visit to the great shame off the coast of Queens: Rikers Island.

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NYC officials demand credit card giants start tracing gun purchases: ‘Why would you not want to do this?’

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams and Comptroller Brad Lander are seeking to use the New York City government’s retirement investments as leverage to pressure the credit card industry into launching a system for tracing gun purchases, arguing that such a mechanism could help prevent future mass shootings.

Salon

Sign of hope: Labor's tide is rising

As NYC pension funds go after Amazon, Rev. William J. Barber takes on Dollar General's notorious labor practices

The Independent UK

New York will pay $7m to wrongly convicted Wu-Tang Clan studio worker who spent 23 years in prison for murder

Grant Williams was convicted in 1997 of fatally shooting Shdell Lewis, but a judge vacated the conviction last year

The Independent UK

NYC to pay $7M to man wrongfully convicted in 1996 killing

New York City has agreed to pay $7 million to a man who spent 23 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit

Reason

Race and Gender Checks Coming to a Boardroom Near You

New York City pressures Wall Street banks to report "self-identified gender, race and/or ethnicity of individual directors."

Salon

Amazon union takes fight to the C-suite

As union fights for contracts, big pension funds with billions in Amazon stock plan an assault on corporate board

The Independent UK

NYC comptroller: Don't blame bail reform for higher crime

Two years into New York’s bold quest to eliminate pretrial incarceration for most crimes, state officials are considering abandoning some reforms amid public pressure to curb rising violence

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