Guest: Bettina Damiani is Project Director of Good Jobs New York (GJNY), a joint project of Good Jobs First and the Fiscal Policy Institute http://www.goodjobsny.org/. Her background experience includes community organizing, progressive public relations and political fundraising. She has a BA in Communications and Peace Studies from Manhattan College and a Masters of Urban Affairs from Hunter College.

Good Jobs New York promotes policies that hold government officials and corporations accountable to the taxpayers, particularly when economic development agencies give subsidies to large corporations that threaten to leave New York City. GJNY examines these deals with a critical eye, to advance the principles that taxpayers have the right to know the details of these deals, to have input on them through their elected representatives and to be assured that they actually create new, good jobs for New Yorkers.

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