Letitia James

The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.

Every hard working New Yorker, regardless of their income, race, or gender deserves an equal shot at attaining retirement security.

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

Only when we ensure that the mistakes of our past are not the vision for our future, will we truly have achieved justice.

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

Before any family is placed in any type of shelter, there must be a thorough, top-to-bottom, building-wide inspection. These inspections must be ongoing and publicly accessible. There is no excuse for any person to be blindly put into an apartment without a guarantee that the space is safe.

The workers who get hurt by corner-cutting often do not realize they are being wronged. Even when they do, they do not have the support and resources to fight back. Without a union to stand behind them, these workers are forced to stay in bad jobs, or face no job at all.

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.

New York should be a place where everyone can afford to live.

If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.

In light of the documented benefits of urban trees, we must also ensure that we increase green spaces in underserved communities throughout the city that lack adequate parks and other green spaces.