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CPC Statement on the NYC FY 23-24 Adopted Budget

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**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**

Date: June 30th, 2023

Contact: Wayne Ho, President and CEO | (212) 941-0920 x 143 | who@cpc-nyc.org

 CPC STATEMENT ON THE NYC FY 23-24 ADOPTED BUDGET

New York, NY – The City of New York passed a $107 billion budget for FY24 earlier today. The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) acknowledges and commends the City Council for restoring major cuts to social services proposed in the Executive Budget. However, we are deeply disappointed that the critical investments needed to sustain the human services workforce were left out of the budget, and that while restorations were made, the budget failed to invest deeply in social safety net, education, housing and the resources necessary to support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI), immigrant, and low-income communities. 

“The lack of investments in social services, which has been a lifeline for our AAPI, low-income, and immigrant communities, and the lack of funding in wages and Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) for the staff who provide these services, is deeply disappointing. Community based organizations  like CPC have filled in the gaps during the pandemic and have continued to do so, but cannot sustain services without the support of our City. We will continue to advocate for a just and equitable budget that prioritizes our communities,” said Wayne Ho, President & CEO of the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC). 

This budget cut over $2.3 billion from essential services like childcare, senior services, housing and homeless services, youth and community development, health and mental healthcare, parks, and education. CPC strongly believes that critical services and investments should not be on the chopping block every single year, and fully funding these services and the workers that provide them should be a minimum standard, not a yearly fight. At the same time as human services staff were shorted on wages, the City budget removed overtime limits and settled labor agreements with police, adding $2 billion to the NYPD budget. 

Below is an overview of some of the wins and shortcomings of the budget as they impact AAPI, immigrant, and low-income communities.

Wins

  • $4.35 billion was allocated to aid and support asylum seekers.
  • $16 million for Promise NYC to provide undocumented children with the child care that they deserve. CPC is one of the four community-based organizations that has partnered to implement Promise NYC, and we look forward to working with the City to ensure these funds are allocated properly and in a timely manner. 
  • $5 million restored for the AAPI Community Support Initiative, which will continue to help ensure culturally and linguistically responsive services, mental health support, trauma-informed care and racial literacy programs. 
  • Cuts to senior services were restored, and $4.5 million was added towards the rates for home delivered meals for homebound seniors.  We hope to see much deeper investments in older adults, whose needs will only continue increasing as the population ages. 

Shortcomings

  • The budget includes $40 million toward workforce enhancement for the 125,000 contracted human services workers rather than the much overdue COLA for a sector that has been working tirelessly to ensure that our most vulnerable communities receive the care and support that they need to thrive. While municipal workers got well-deserved raises, the City-contracted human services workers, who have been underpaid for far too long, did not even get an increase that keeps up with inflation.
  • We are disturbed by the cuts to adult literacy programs, which has been a vehicle for many of our immigrant communities to achieve economic mobility. CPC is one of the 40 organizations across the city that provides adult literacy classes to New Yorkers, and we have seen firsthand the life changing impacts it has on our community members and in stimulating the overall economy. 
  • Discretionary funding was eliminated again by the Council Member representing District 1. Despite providing critical services for 20,000 community members in this district yearly, this is the second year that CPC has been zeroed out. LGBTQ+ youth, older adults, and children are missing out on essential services on which they have depended for years.

As always, CPC greatly appreciates the Council Members who committed discretionary funding for our programs that will continue to support children, youth, seniors, immigrants, individuals with disabilities, LGBTQ communities, and families across all 51 Council Districts in the City: Speaker Adams and Council Members Avilés, Ayala, Brannan, Kagan, Krishnan, Hanks, Hudson, Lee, Menin, Narcisse, Powers, Restler, Rivera, Schulman and Ung. We look forward to continuing to work with the Mayor’s Office and City Council to ensure meaningful investments in human services organizations and workers who continue to meet persistent and emerging community needs.

 

ABOUT CPC: The Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) is a social services organization that creates positive social change. Founded in 1965, CPC is the nation's largest Asian American social services organization and aims to promote the social and economic empowerment of Chinese American, immigrant, and low-income communities of New York City. CPC is the trusted partner to individuals and families striving to achieve goals in their education, family, community, and career. 

關於華策會: 華人策劃協會（簡稱“華策會”）是一個致力於創造正向社會變革的社會服務機構。華策會成立於1965年，是美國最大的亞裔美國人社會服務機構，旨在促進紐約市華裔美國人，移民，及低收入社區的社會權益和經濟賦權。華策會是為實現其 教育，家庭，社區及職業目標而努力的個人和家庭可信賴的機構。

ACERCA DE CPC: El Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC) es una organización de servicios sociales que crea un cambio social positivo. Fundada en 1965, CPC es la mayor organización de servicios sociales asiático-americanos del país y su objetivo es promover la capacitación social y económica de las comunidades chino-americanas, inmigrantes y de bajos ingresos de la ciudad de Nueva York. CPC es el socio de confianza de más de 60.000 personas y familias que se esfuerzan por alcanzar objetivos en su educación, familia, comunidad y carrera.