Issues & Ideas

Our Next Economy: THE Creative City

• Stop taxing our poorest New Yorkers by repealing income taxes on low and moderate income households.
• Spur start ups with $50,000 micro-seed investments.
• Grow jobs by improving accessibility to economic development programs.
• Utilize expert retirees to create a "Senior Service Corps" to assist with workforce and business development.
• Train people who are both unemployed and underemployed for jobs that are both high in quality and demand.
• Make the City’s Job Centers work better for applicants by passing the Ready Access to Assistance Act.
• Transform the City’s welfare-to-work program to train job seekers in sustainable wage jobs, paying well over the poverty rate.
• Provide tax incentives for working youth and support for gaining access to those benefits.
• Lower health care insurance costs by allowing small business to buy into City health insurance plans.
• Use the New York Cancer Project as a model to launch studies on asthma, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and obesity, harnessing our City’s biotech and hospital resources.
• Increase access to business and workforce development programs by putting them online.
• Improve our City's neighborhoods through tax increment financing.
• Replicate the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center model to retain manufacturing jobs in New York.
• Grow manufacturing of green, biotechnology and other niche industries through expansion of Industrial Business Zone tax credits.
• Recover millions in government subsidies to the private sector by including “clawback” provisions.
• Protect niche manufacturing by amending and better enforcing the zoning code.
• Attract "creative class" members to join our workforce though targeted tax incentives.
• Retain "creative class" members and encourage them to build creative communities.
• Attract small businesses to become a part of "THE Creative City" through targeted tax incentives.
• Launch "Art for Public's Sake" to make art a part of everyday life in the City by creating a rotating collection of local art and displaying them in public spaces.
• Increase the number of art and cultural productions in New York City by providing short term loans for exhibits.

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Submitted by Fellow New Yorkers