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City Council Must Pass Bills to Fight Climate Change

There’s no need to wait for the United Nations conference later this year to take real steps to stave off climate change. The City Council is considering a set of…

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NY’s Prisoners Need Tuition Assistance. So Do You.

Continuing a Pataki-era ban on prison inmates receiving TAP funding doesn’t just hurt the prisoners, a state senator argues. It also harms the communities they return to when their sentence…

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Will Congress Let Hunger Hold Women Down?

As many women can attest, balancing work and family is never easy. But it’s even harder when access to affordable, nutritious food is out of reach.

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Want to Fix Healthcare? Fix Health Literacy First

Just 12 percent of Americans are sufficiently health literate. The Rx, this doctor argues, is for patients and doctors to work harder to understand each other.

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Key Tool for Low-Income Housing Needs Lawmakers’ Support

The New York State Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is underfunded, oversubscribed and full of potential to help address the housing crisis.

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Cuomo Must Back Program to Truly Address Homelessness

“In a political climate that is unfriendly toward financing for social services, supportive housing stands out as a shining example of public policy success.”

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NYC Housing Advocates and the Global Struggle

A local activist writes that the local housing crisis is part of a global trend fomented by multinational companies. Until they’re resisted, the de Blasio administration’s housing plan is unlikely…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Advocate’s Plea: Don’t Blur Line Between Shelters and Supportive Housing

A supportive housing advocate—who hopes to convince Gov. Cuomo to build more of it—says more attention must be paid to the differences between temporary homeless shelters and permanent supportive housing.

Education Opinion

NY State Must Clear Up Mystery of Missing Test Items

A handful of questions on last year’s state ELA test seem to have disappeared from official tallies of students’ performance. Does that mean kids were forced to wrestle with bum…

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Slut Shaming Feeds the Sex Trade

“The sense of entitlement that enables boys to call a girl a THOT during 6th grade recess … is the same sense of entitlement that emboldens 50-year-old men to purchase…

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