When the state Comptroller's audit in the Economic Development Authority was released, New Jerseyans learned that corporations wasted $11 BILLION in taxpayer dollars without any method of tracking accountability. Legislators announced joint committee hearings to get to the bottom of this ... More
Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday was filled with his usual vile racism and lies. To my dismay, some Democrats even applauded him through the majority of his speech. But there were also plenty of champions who refused to ... More
Five years ago, we set out to fight for New Jersey working families, and on February 4th we had the honor to say, we did it! Thanks to your activism, close to 1 million New Jersey workers are on the path for ... More
"We aren’t just taking to the streets, we are wielding power at the ballot box." ... More
With negotiations ramping up before another potential government shutdown on February 15th, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar are making a bold demand of their Democratic colleagues in Congress: Not another dollar for Trump's deportation force. ... More
The New Jersey Legislature has taken one step closer to lifting up nearly 1 million workers and their families out of poverty and reducing income inequality. The Assembly and Senate Houses passed the A15/S15, legislation to raise the minimum ... More
(Please see the below message from WFP’s Randy Bryce.) After former Governor Scott Walker struck a deal to give $4 BILLION in tax subsidies to Foxconn in exchange for building a new manufacturing plant here in Wisconsin, we just learned that ... More
We know what it takes to win elections — ENGAGEMENT. The WFP helped recruit Jumaane Williams to run for city council in 2009, ran his first campaign, AND WON! It was a long-shot but we did it by knocking on doors and ... More
Below is the prepared testimony, on A15, delivered to the Assembly Labor Committee on Thursday, January 24, 2019. My name is Analilia Mejia, and I am the director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, it is a member ... More
The Working Families Party’s mission is to elect the next generation of progressive leaders who are fighting for the issues that ... More
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