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Opinion: NYC’s Homeless Shelters Workers Need Better Job Standards to Survive

‘The bills that make up the SOS Act, introduced by Council Members Francisco Moya and Diana Ayala, would raise the standards for workers like me to ensure that privately-run shelters…

Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: NYC’s Next Mayor Must Seek ‘Transformative’ Solutions to Address Family Homelessness Crisis

‘The next mayor will inherit this crisis but has a tremendous opportunity with incoming federal funds and a wealth of experienced and committed providers, developers, and advocacy and philanthropic organizations…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Budget Can Offer a Down Payment Towards a Caring and Compassionate New Deal for NYC

‘We can address poverty and public health concerns by providing people the housing, social services and care they actually need—and by divesting from policing and incarceration.’

Justice Opinion

Opinion: Fix the Alarming Lack of Transparency Around Hate Crimes in New York

‘Without more information regarding the communities that experience hate crimes and those that are accused of committing them, we cannot take meaningful steps to improve the mechanisms that we currently…

Government Opinion

Opinion: The Mayor Says NYC Will Fully Reopen July 1. But What About Vaccine Hesitancy?

‘I’m beyond thrilled some inkling of normalcy may return to this gorgeous mosaic of a city by summer. But city and state officials are going to have to step up…

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Opinion: With Federal Support, NYC Can Become World-Leading Hub for Clean Energy

‘The Biden Administration is making $3 billion available to port facilities throughout the country that support the wind industry. New York City is a prime candidate to receive federal investment…

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Opinion: Reimagining Public Health for NYC Starts With Community Conversations

‘To gain a deeper understanding of how we can recover and rebuild, the Health Department recently launched a new series. The vision is to spark conversation by bringing together communities…

Education Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Child Abuse Prevention Services Have Proved Crucial During the COVID-19 Pandemic

‘Four out of five families who enroll in prevention programs complete them. And, once they complete services, these families are five times less likely to experience another report of abuse…

Education Opinion

Opinion: Why Public Education Advocates Must Stand With NYC’s Grad Student Workers

‘At every level of our education system, and at every school in New York City, educators and school workers must be guaranteed a fair wage and decent working conditions.’

Climate and Environment Government Opinion

Opinion: New York Can Commit to a Greener Earth by Passing the Climate and Community Investment Act

‘Under the CCIA, there would be fees on air pollution emissions, in recognition of the negative externalities they produce. Such fees are profoundly fair: it is not so much a…

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