Age Justice
NYC’s Seniors Get Solid Wins in City’s Budget
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Overall, the budget for the Department for The Aging will grow 13 percent in 2020 from the previous year, reaching $411 million.
CityPlate
See Which NYC Schools Eat Lunch Before 10 a.m.
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Students at 51 percent of schools citywide head to the lunchroom at 11:00 a.m. or earlier. Where does your child’s school rank? And why is it so hard to feed kids at a normal time?
ABAWDS
Trump Admin.’s Food Stamp Move Could Cost City Economy $150M
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Waivers that exempt able-bodied adults in areas of higher unemployment from food-stamp work rules encourage dependency, conservatives say. But local experts contend the cost of withdrawing those waivers will exceed any benefit.
Age Justice
Opinion: It’s Time to Make NY a #FairCity4AllAges
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‘At less than one-half of 1 percent of the city’s overall budget, the Department for the Aging has long struggled to receive the financial support it requires to meet its mission of ensuring the ‘the dignity and quality of life of diverse older adults.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers
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‘For the farmworkers of New York State, the Farmworkers Fair Labors Practices Act (FFLPA) is a promising remediation to exploitative labor practices, poor living conditions and a pernicious exemption from legal protections or mechanisms to fight against it.’
CityPlate
Federal Shutdown Created Unprecedented Gap at Low-Income Dinner Tables
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‘If these higher benefits were eaten up immediately, it’s not like low-income people are spending it on caviar or something. They are struggling just to survive.’
Will New York’s Farmworkers Get Labor Protections in 2019?
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With a Democratic-controlled State Senate and Assembly, many advocates are hopeful that this will be the year the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act finally passes.
CityPlate
Why do Some NYC School Kids Still Eat Lunch Before Some of Us Have had Breakfast?
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The teacher reminded some restless students to focus during the last 15 minutes before lunch. Standard directions for students feeling antsy before the mid-day meal. Except it was 9:25 a.m.
CityPlate
New York’s Hungry Will Benefit from a Byproduct of Trump’s Trade War
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Soup kitchens and pantries will get surplus food the feds bought to help farmers hurt by the presidents tariffs. But other federal food policies, like cuts to SNAP, continue to hurt the hungry.
ECONOMY
Congress’s Tinkering With SNAP Could Help Some People a Little, Hurt Others Deeply
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The House is considering tinkering with how the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program calculates benefits.
