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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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Opinion: Legal and Financial Advice Must Be Part of Every Community’s Disaster Response Kit

‘Having a non-profit lawyer or housing advocate on your side as you navigate insurance, mortgage relief, and complex federal and local regulations impeding your recovery can make all the difference.’

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Opinion: Tighten New York’s School Immunization Law

‘New York, an epicenter of increased measles exposure, can take a major step nationally and internationally in controlling this and other serious disease with a common-sense statutory reform of school…

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CityViews: Is New York’s Mental-Health System Listening to the Peers Who’ve Lived It?

Out of the psychiatry-reform movements of the late 20th Century came a remarkable innovation: ‘Peer workers’ who have experienced mental-heath crises working alongside other clinicians. But are today’s peers right…

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CityViews: Crisis at Federal Jail Highlights Ongoing Crime of Solitary Confinement

Is this the year New York State finally reins in a punishment that is almost universally regarding as a violation of human rights?

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CityViews: Save the NY Program that Keeps Homeowners Out of Foreclosure

‘This is the type of investment that will pay for itself tenfold by keeping our neighbors in their homes and by keeping our communities strong.’

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