Assistance is on the way for many of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who qualify for food stamps but up to now haven’t gotten them because of long applications and strict requirements.
As a promise to help mom and pop shops stand their ground when a Pathmark opened in southwestern Queens a few years ago, the City Council passed a law establishing a small business assistance fund. Two years later, however, the fund remains empty, and local businesses are slowly shutting down.
The longtime advocate for low-income New Yorkers with disabilities, and founder of Sinergia, has died. He was 71.
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