As New York confronts a deadly pandemic, City Limits brings you coverage about how the disease—and the response—will affect the most vulnerable.
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More than three months after the move-out date—and after CUNY approved refunds for graduating students—at least some CUNY families face obstacles trying to learn when students who graduated this spring will get their refunds.
‘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.’
New York City’s relief program for undocumented immigrants affected by COVID-19 has refused to disclose its community-based partners, citing fears that applicants would overwhelm them.
But Michael Mulgrew believes a blended learning model can work.
‘When healthcare is bound up with policing, more people get sick, and more die.‘
‘Not since New Yorkers like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr debated our best interests have we had the opportunity to truly revisit the merits of the codified laws and established standards we’ve used as the framework for our society.’
‘Those in power are willing to be extremely broad in their use of COVID-19 as a justification for bending certain legal protections.’
While about 20 percent of New York’s population have been tested for the coronavirus, just about 3.6 percent of people incarcerated in the state’s prisons have received tests.
‘This unprecedented public health crisis has further illuminated existing discrimination and inequities in access to medical care, especially for one community disproportionately impacted by COVID-19: immigrants
As the third phase of reopening starts next week, an analysis of unemployment data points to a long road ahead for the city’s economic recovery.