Adi Talwar
Basketball courts at Crossroads Juvenile Center, in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
“We must reject efforts to roll back Raise the Age and stop scapegoating children and youth for the decades-long failure of government to invest equitably in them and their communities in the first place.”
‘Unless New York’s next mayor steps up to address the barrage of crises facing New York’s children, an already untenable situation is on track to become much, much worse.’
Child poverty decreased in New York City in 2013, but that was only a start toward rolling back the devastating effects of the Great Recession.
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