Budget fight revived for unemployment for excluded workers
They want $500M for the fund.
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They want $500M for the fund.
Undocumented immigrants and self-employed New Yorkers want their own unemployment program.
New York's Excluded Workers Fund enabled undocumented immigrants to repay debt, help their families, and start their own businesses.
From the Excluded Worker Fund to the 421-a property tax break, here's what didn't make it into New York's final budget deal.
New York State was rightly celebrated for its 2021 $2.1 billion dollar Excluded Worker Fund (EWF), providing direct payments to essential, low-income, immigrant workers and their families who had suffered economic loss due to the pandemic but were excluded from some federal pandemic relief efforts, including unemployment insurance and payments from the federal CARES Act.