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Opinion: Toleration of Age Discrimination Must End. You Can Help End It

There’s a role for government officials, employers and workers in ending a very common form of employment discrimination: ageism.

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Opinion: Post-COVID NYC Needs Bike Lanes and Electric Microbility

‘We can use this moment to position ourselves in ways that best serve New Yorkers—those who have stayed, those who will return, and the newcomers who will power New York’s…

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Opinion: How to Make ‘Open Streets’ Permanent and Equitable

‘Permanent Open Streets in New York City will improve our quality of life, while setting a world-class example. But our approach needs to start with justice.’

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Opinion: If Black Lives Matter, We Need to Address New York’s Prison Crisis

‘The governor and state lawmakers continue to ignore calls to end racist violence that happens every day on their watch, out of sight from public view, in their state prisons.’

Health Opinion

Opinion: NYS Medicaid Program Could Close the COVID-19 Childcare Gap

‘During the pandemic, people who need the assistance of caregivers for either their infirm parents or young children find their risk of COVID-19 increased in significant ways.’

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Opinion: Restaurants and Grocers Can Ease NYC’s Hunger Crisis

‘New York City need not look far to increase food resources for those in need: it should incentivize grocers and restaurants to donate excess prepared food that would otherwise go…

Health Opinion

Opinion: Disinvestment Deepens the Impact of COVID-19 and Racism in the Bronx

‘The pandemic has spared no one—but in The Bronx the virus found a host community that has long been left to fend for itself without the resources to do much…

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Opinion: Stop Echoing Industry City’s Bogus Math on Jobs

Industry City’s ‘Plan for 20,000 Jobs’ included jobs that already exist, jobs that it expected tenant companies to generate, and jobs that murky projections said would be spurred off site.

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Opinion: NY State Prisons Must Relax Rules on Visits

‘Those regular visits were like heartbeats, helping to sustain, energize and strengthen our relationship until, exactly 13 years later, the last prison in which Joe resided disappeared from view as…

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Opinion: New York’s Billionaires Can Afford to Help Save CUNY

‘While I and many other CUNY employees are enraged at the chancellor’s handling of the crisis, he is also administering a system that was slashed in 1975 and gradually bled…

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