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Opinion: To Avoid Rats, Odors and Inequity, NYC Must Redesign its Organic Waste System

‘New York City’s Mayor de Blasio just committed to a green recovery. Yet, in this year’s crisis budget, the city cut all funding for organic waste collection.’

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Opinión: Una lección del COVID-19 es que los derechos políticos son esenciales en una emergencia de salud

Necessitamos trabajamos para lograr cambios en políticas públicas que atiendan a las condiciones estructurales de inequidad que generan la prevalencia del contagio por Covid-19 en poblaciones históricamente excluidas, como afrodescendientes,…

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Opinion: After COVID-19, NYC’s Future Depends on Bold Moves

‘When people say ‘cities come back, they always do,’ or ‘pandemics have happened before and look, our cities remained,’ they ignore a fundamental truth that distinguishes this moment from many…

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Opinion: How Domestic Hunger Became a Partisan Issue

‘Most Democrats in Congress support increasing hunger funding while the vast majority of House Republicans, and most Senate Republicans, support such reductions. Hunger is now as partisan as gun control…

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Opinión: Legisladores estatales tienen que hacer más para parar la criminalización de nuestras comunidades.

‘El gobernador Cuomo dijo: ‘No necesitan protestar, ganaron. Han cumplido su meta.’ Incorrecto.’

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Opinion: Albany Must Do More to Stop the Criminalization of our Communities

‘Governor Cuomo said, ‘You don’t need to protest, you won. You accomplished your goal. Wrong. While we won important progress in Albany, our demands go much further.’

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Opinion: Wage Theft is a Criminal Act. Treat it as Such

Until prosecutors stop viewing the enforcement of these crimes as optional and start investigating them like other crimes, unscrupulous companies will continue to incorporate fraud into their business model.

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Opinion: Gowanus Rezoning Must Heed COVID-19 Lessons & Offer Racial Justice

‘The de Blasio administration must recommit to advancing its first rezoning in what is now a majority white, middle-income neighborhood and ensure that the vision of a thriving, inclusive, and…

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Opinion: COVID-19 Exposed Health Disparities that New York Can—and Must—Fix

‘The most basic function of government is to keep its people safe. And so there are reforms to our health system that must be made immediately.’

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Opinion: Extreme Heat’s Risk Swells in the Summer of COVID

The combination of a pandemic and extreme heat this summer is a perfect storm, as major economic losses and high unemployment rates make it hard to afford energy bills for…

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