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CityViews: Workers Comp Hearings Shouldn’t Be English-Only

‘Our report finds that the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board frequently fails to provide essential language access services to injured workers.’

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CityViews: Rent-Burdened Seniors Deserve Better from NY State

SCRIE—one of the only programs that directly addresses rents for seniors—does not solve the root problem of housing cost burden.

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CityViews: State Board’s Decision Leaves Low-Wage Workers in Peril

The Cuomo administration must appeal the gutting of rules to protect workers from paying exorbitant fees to receive their own wages.

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No BackSpace: Shackling Inmates Will Only Make Rikers Violence Worse

A veteran DOC officer writes: ‘We simply must develop the will to expend the money for services and staff, rather than on restraint chairs and solitary cells.’

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No Backspace: NY’s Rules for Policing Political Activity Still Need Tightening

Imagine a world where a federal judge has to tell civil liberties lawyers that they’ve conceded too much to the NYPD. Don’t imagine it. You’re living in it.

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As De Blasio Probes End, Progressive Ideals Matter More than Prosecutors’ Take

The prosecutors have spoken, and the court of public opinion will render its decision in under eight months’ time. Yet neither one is really equipped to answer the deeper question…

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NoBackspace: Vision Zero Works When Victim-Blaming Stops and Accountability Starts

When we hear about traffic crashes, there’s a tendency to question the intentions of the victim first and immediately put fault on them, instead of a reckless driver. That has…

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CityViews: The Long View on New York’s Homeless Problem

An author who documented the homeless problem as it existed in 1981 argues many in the city are still misled by the notion that homelessness is an aberration or interloper.…

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No BackSpace: It’s the Incessant Fundraising, Stupid (Why Big Money Dooms Democrats)

‘Campaigning and governing is now indistinguishable from fundraising. The vast majority of e-mails and letters that I now receive from elected officials are either thinly veiled fundraising pitches or overt…

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No BackSpace: Amid Racist Sentiment, Year of the Rooster Dawns on a Stronger Chinese NYC

A Trump presidency and persistent incidents of anti-Asian sentiment are disturbing. But this author is appeased by the footsteps of the Year of Rooster and its prophetic messages.

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