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Opinion: HireNYC Fails to Create Careers for Construction Workers

‘With no real pathway from job training to work, it’s no surprise that so few new construction and development hires were made through HireNYC.’

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Opinion: How New York Is Failing Those Left Behind At Rikers Island

‘The only population of people increasing on Rikers happens to be the one population fully under the governor’s control – people on parole.’

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Opinion: No More Con Ed. It’s Time For Public Power

‘A public utility should work for us all. It should be democratically owned and run. Not an unaccountable corporate monopoly like Con Ed. ‘

Health Opinion

Opinion: Put Food on the Green New Deal Menu

‘Transforming the food system has great potential to sequester carbon, expand well-paid, create clean energy jobs and help reverse the public health crises of food insecurity and diet-related diseases.’

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Opinion: Avoid Another Amazon by Learning from Essex Crossing

‘Treating the Amazon HQ2 project as a proxy for all new development was an error in judgement.’

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Opinion: NYC Needs to Think Bigger—and Better—About Improving Infrastructure

‘Infrastructure is a public good. And land value—commonly-owned, socially-created wealth—can be tapped to keep this public good alive and well.’

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Opinion: Decarcerating NYC Starts With Building Smaller Jails

‘There are advocates who are staunchly opposed to building new facilities. While these advocates and I share many of the same values and goals, there is only one realistic and…

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Opinion: NYS Policies Translate to Failure for English-Language Learners

‘For years I’ve read about the issues with ELLs. What’s wrong with them? Why don’t they graduate in four years like everyone else?’

In Depth Investigations Opinion

The Disappearing 3-Bedroom: Larger Families Have Few Affordable Options in NYC

The housing market is shedding three-bedroom units, and the mayor’s affordable-housing plan is producing few of them, leaving larger families in cramped quarters.

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Opinion: The Unending Urgency of Closing Rikers

‘I’m reminded the cells on Rikers are so hot — that the walls sweat. There was no air. I had to lay on the floor naked, to suck a little…

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