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Opinion: New York City Students Need Wellness Education

‘Put simply, setting aside time for meditation each week makes people better learners and better human beings. Isn’t that what we want for all our children?’

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Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers

‘For the farmworkers of New York State, the Farmworkers Fair Labors Practices Act (FFLPA) is a promising remediation to exploitative labor practices, poor living conditions and a pernicious exemption from…

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Opinion: Loophole Means Criminal Charges Set to be Dismissed Still Upend Lives in NYS

An ‘ACD’ is a common mechanism in our criminal legal system to dismiss and seal all charges. But while pending, the charges are accessible to the public – including employers.

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Opinion: NYC’s Working Women Face Economic Risks, Safety Concerns, Barriers to Power

There is ‘incontrovertible evidence that all the hard paid and unpaid labors of New York’s women of color and immigrant women across all the years of their lives provides no…

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Opinion: More Transparency Needed on Brooklyn’s Tainted Convictions

‘For the first time, the DA’s office released a public report on an overturned conviction. Yet while it describes the police investigation, trial and subsequent findings in considerable detail, the…

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Opinion: Trump-Pence Gag Rule is a Vicious Attack on Basic Healthcare in NYC

‘This draconian attack on the Title X Family Planning Program will have devastating consequences for vulnerable New Yorkers.’

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Opinion: Why Survivors of Domestic Violence Should Support Bail and Discovery Reform in NYS

‘Legislation to reform New York’s bail and discovery laws will protect victims of violence—particularly when they become defendants.’

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Opinion: Will Prevailing Wage Legislation Help or Hurt Communities of Color?

‘Progressives do not become progressives by exclusively catering to the building and construction trade unions interests, regardless of the merit or cause.’

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Opinion: NYC’s Teens Need Universal Rent Control to Save Their Place in the City

‘With our lives before us, we are struggling to envision a future in the city in which we were born and raised.’

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Opinion: Texas Paves the Way for NY to Make Criminal Justice More Fair

Numerous wrongful convictions like Michael Morton’s taught Texas that it was time for a significant change to the old ‘business as usual’ approach to criminal discovery. What might that teach…

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