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Opinion: NYC’s Equitable, Low-Carbon Future Requires Subsidies for Micromobility

‘Micromobility has proven its value as an affordable, efficient, and equitable transport option and should play a prominent role as our cities reopen and residents head back to work.’

Opinion: NYC Mayoral Candidates’ Campaign Contortions on Religious Instruction

‘It’s silly season on the mayoral campaign trail as candidates contort to convert voting blocs to their cause. But the mayor’s duty to assure quality education for all New Yorkers…

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Supportive Housing is the Missing Piece from the Mayoral Housing Conversation

‘Supportive housing has been notably absent from most mayoral candidate housing discussions in spite of the fact that our homelessness crisis is the worst on record – and that it…

Government Opinion

Opinion: Brooklyn Reproductive Health Centers at Risk in Still-Negotiated State Budget

‘Our work here reduces healthcare disparities by providing care to under-resourced communities, but our centers can only operate if we receive necessary funding. As our city continues to confront issues…

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: New York’s Pandemic Aid Must Go Toward Truly Helping Tenants

‘Our state leaders were handed an incredible opportunity to confront an unprecedented global health crisis that has hit New Yorkers hard. We are calling on them not to squander it…

Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: In Plan to Close Rikers, Community Reinvestment is Key to Repairing Harms of Incarceration

‘For decades, criminalized communities have been calling on elected leaders to fund our schools, our parks, our hospitals, our community centers, our access to stable homes and more.’

Economy Opinion

Opinion: Why I Joined the Hunger Strike to Fund NY’s Excluded Workers

‘With my savings gone and just working one day a week, I’m standing in food pantry lines for hours just to get enough to eat. I have to constantly borrow…

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Opinion: State Medicaid Pharmacy ‘Carve-Out’ Would Cost Patients and Providers

‘At Alliance and community health centers across New York, we use these savings to fund otherwise uncompensated care, ensuring that low-income New Yorkers have consistent access to life-saving medications and…

Education Government Opinion

Opinion: Proposed Cuts Threaten NYC Kids’ Access to Early Intervention, Needed Now More Than Ever

‘During the height of the pandemic, there was an 82 percent decline in Early Intervention referrals compared to prior years, meaning that an estimated 3,000-6,000 young children in New York…

Economy Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: Updating NY’s Home-Sharing Rules Would Aid State’s Recovery

‘The current system is confusing and overly restrictive. A teacher should be allowed to rent out her home for a few days when she’s away for the summer, and a…

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