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NYC SUBSIDIES FOR CITY POINT DON'T ADD UP: Acadia Realty Trust is building City Point in downtown Brooklyn on city-owned land with more than $20 million in public subsidies. But Acadia refuses to ensure construction workers earn decent wages and benefits. Acadia Realty Trust + our tax dollars + substandard wages and benefits = financial disaster for our communities. You do the math. Sign our petition now; tell Acadia CEO Ken Bernstein that's enough http://www.citypointjobs.com In the News, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver calls on the state Legislature to pass legislation that he sponsored that would raise New York's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.50 per hour: http://nydn.us/XO2xcL