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Want Real NYPD Reform? Cut its $4.9 Billion Budget

An activist argues that reforms—those recently passed or currently considered—will never really end the harm that Broken Windows policing does to communities of color. What would work is to make…

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Promising de Blasio School Plan Could be Tanked by Test Scores

The Community Schools Initiative could make real progress at addressing the complex social pressures that low-income students face. But if test scores determine the fate of those schools, a UFT…

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The Truth of Voluntary Segregation in City Schools

An opinion blogger’s take: “For many minorities, especially new immigrant parents, understanding and respect sometimes are more likely to come from a segregated school than a diverse school.”

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Campaign 2016’s Distorted Poverty Debate

Democrats avoid talking about poverty. Republicans back policies premised on outdated ideas about the poor. And the media doesn’t take either side to task.

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Tenant: City Must Pass Stronger Ban on ‘Construction-as-Harassment’

“We desperately need protection for tenants before it gets to the point where the entire building needs to be renovated.”

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It’s Not the Poor who are Organizing Against a NYC Plastic-Bag Law

The plastic bag industry and their supporters have increasingly used poor people as their last line of defense. When the poor aren’t being blamed for all of our society’s problem…

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Doubts on De Blasio’s Gun Courts

The program would handle gun cases to serve one basic underlying purpose: to speed up gun convictions. Many, however, might not equate “fast tracking” with justice or due process.

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Workers Against NYC’s Growing ‘Gig Economy’

The changing relationship between employees and employers is sometimes billed as a family-friendly boost. In fact, it’s largely an affront to basic economic justice—which is why some workers are fighting…

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Yes, Asians Have Opinions About Stop-and-Frisk, Too

New York’s Asian community was under-represented in the stop-and-frisk numbers under Mayor Bloomberg, and many of its leaders were skeptical about the program’s roll-back under Mayor de Blasio. A Chinese-language…

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Will Bill de Blasio Fulfill his Promise as a Global Climate-Change Leader?

The next installment in our new opinion series credits the mayor bold promises to reduce the risk of climate change but wonders whether his policies are keeping up.

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