{"id":370248,"date":"2026-10-11T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370248\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:53:04","slug":"dcwp-commissioner-breaks-down-the-power-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370248\/","title":{"rendered":"DCWP Commissioner breaks down the POWER Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Levine, commissioner of the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, joined \u201cInside City Hall\u201d to break down the POWER Act supported by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, according to supporters, would reduce barriers for workers, tenants, small businesses and nonprofits seeking to hold corporations and other actors accountable in court for practices such as deed theft, junk fees and predatory small business financing. Critics, however, say the proposal would unfairly target businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Levine, commissioner of the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, joined \u201cInside City Hall\u201d to break&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,11,10,12,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-370248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}