Excluded workers on Tuesday kicked off a multi-week march to Albany with waves of rolling demonstrations to raise the heat on state lawmakers as the state budget deadline draws near.
It’s a major escalation in a long battle to win an additional $3 billion for the Excluded Workers Fund and a permanent program akin to unemployment insurance for excluded workers who are ineligible for compensation if they lose a job or earnings.
According to Make the Road New York, one of the organizing groups of the rally, the state legislature failed to include either priority in their one-house budget last weekend, “leaving excluded workers out in the cold even as many are still struggling to recover from the pandemic and rising gas prices put a strain on the budgets of working families.”
