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During President Trump’s first 100 days, the national conversation turned on big ideas: whether it was right to bar refugees, whether Obamacare was worth keeping, and more. City Limits is exploring less heralded ways in which the Trump administration and its supporters might affect life in New York.
Nothing swirling around Rudolph Giuliani now is out of step with the person depicted 26 years ago in a 464-page vulnerability study he commissioned for his second run for mayor.
‘If Secretary Ben Carson gets his way, families with one or more undocumented members would be told they must leave or separate, despite the fact that such a policy makes neither fiscal nor rational sense.’
New York City’s seniors are already underutilizing public benefits available to them. But for non-citizen seniors, that reluctance has grown in the past year, a result of alarm from the changes to federal tests for admissibility.
Four from the large field of Democratic challengers have released very detailed proposals. Others have talked more broadly about the need for a national housing strategy.
Businesses in New York City that depend on steel and aluminum like steel companies, breweries and metal stamping firms have been affected by the federal tariffs recently imposed on metals.
New York voted against Donald Trump, polls show the president to be deeply unpopular here, and his policies have negatively affected many, like transgender people and immigrants. But the president’s increased military spending has meant bigger contracts and more jobs at some NY defense and supply companies.
According to its own statistics, OSHA is performing slightly more inspections, but finding fewer infractions per visit, issuing fewer violations overall, and, accounting for inflation, issuing smaller penalties.
Since they are unlikely to tweet back to the president, City Limits asked some of New York’s seniors what 140 character message they have about Trump’s proposed cuts.
Algunas de estas estafas implican servicios relacionados con la ley de inmigración. Pero otros fraudes financieros están también emergiendo, atacando a personas que se sienten ahora menos seguros de ir a la policía.
Some of the cons involve services related to immigration law. But other financial scams are also popping up, preying on people who now feel less confident about going to the police.
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