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NYC is Expanding Resources for Students’ Mental Health. But Is It Enough?
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The de Blasio administration has proposed an increase in spending for student mental health initiatives, but advocates and council members are pushing for more.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Budget Should Invest in Students’ Well-being, Not School Policing
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‘Mayor Bill de Blasio’s executive budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, which includes plans to increase funding for school police, tells us that our city’s leaders care more about controlling and arresting students than making sure they feel safe, supported, and cared for in schools.’
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Budget Can Offer a Down Payment Towards a Caring and Compassionate New Deal for NYC
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‘We can address poverty and public health concerns by providing people the housing, social services and care they actually need—and by divesting from policing and incarceration.’
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Opinion: NYC’s Foster Care Mentorship Program, Fair Futures, Saved Me. Now the City Needs to Save Fair Futures.
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‘It just isn’t fair for any young person to be denied a fundamental support system in their lives. Youth in care deserve to have this very basic need met, and the city must do its part by baselining $20 million for Fair Futures in the upcoming budget.’
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Opinion: NYC’s Budget Does Not Make Policing Safer for those with Mental Illness
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‘My family—and families like mine all over this city—deserve to be able to call for help and actually get it.’
2021
Max & Murphy: Eric Adams Says Speaker & Comptroller Are Both Wrong on Campaign Finance
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The beep weighed in on the beef between two of his likely 2021 rivals and also talked about borough jails, NYCHA develpment and the Queens DA’s race. Plus, a look at end-of-session politics in Albany.