David Trimmer is a contributor at People’s Policy Project.
NYC’s congestion pricing program would have reduced traffic, enhanced transit service, and benefited the most vulnerable New Yorkers. But Gov. Kathy Hochul absurdly decided to suspend the program the MTA had already invested half a billion dollars into.
A new analysis shows that the End Child Poverty Act, reintroduced in Congress by Rashida Tlaib earlier this year, would drastically reduce child poverty and poverty in general and lower income inequality. Supporting it should be a no-brainer for Democrats.