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“This field is underpaid, understaffed, and entering and progressing within it is only available to those who have the means for conventional schooling, and not those with the lived experience…

ByLinda Lausell Bryant

ByEric Brettschneider 0Comments

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Jan 2024

Housing and Homelessness Labor Opinion

Opinion: For a More Equitable Supportive Housing Workforce, Promote From Within

“Black New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness, making up 58 percent of shelter residents; 80 percent of the workers caring for these individuals are women of color, yet the…

ByChinetta Mitchell

ByChandra Redfern 0Comments

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Feb 2023

Economy Government

NYC Still Falling Short in Effort to Diversify Contracting, Report Says

According to the latest Comptroller’s report, Black and Latino‐owned businesses each received under 2 percent of city contract dollars in fiscal year 2022, and only 5 percent of all new…

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

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Jul 2021

Government Opinion

Opinion: This Election Will Create More Diverse Representation in NYC—Thanks to Ranked Choice Voting

The City Council, where only 14 women serve in a chamber of 51, is poised—for the first time—to become a majority female body with 29 women currently leading in their…

ByRosemonde Pierre-Louis 0Comments

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May 2021

Education Government News

Immigrant Parents Press DOE for Culturally Responsive Curriculum in Schools

Last week, a group of organizations demanding a more culturally diverse curriculum in New York City public schools took to the Department of Education’s (DOE) Lower Manhattan headquarters seeking to…

ByFernando Martínez for El Diario 1Comment

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Dec 2020

Economy Opinion

Opinion: How City Nonprofits Can Diversify Their Workforce and Leadership Teams

We made the change by changing our culture—and how we worked—to intentionally identify, mentor, network, promote and hire individuals that improved our outcomes and enhanced the organization’s diversity.

ByJeremy Kohomban, Alastair Short and Deborah Finley-Troup 0Comments

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Aug 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Teacher Diversity is More Important Now Than Ever

‘Teachers, education policy experts, and advocates are urging Congress to include $250 billion in additional stimulus funds for education, including a minimum of $15 million to teacher preparation programs at…

ByLeona Fowler 1Comment

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Sep 2019

Climate and Environment

Editor’s Note: Delivering News from Across NYC’s Language Barriers

The five boroughs encompass myriad–often separate–worlds. Yet we share one city. And that’s why it’s important, or just interesting, to know what’s happening behind the city’s many language barriers.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Sep 2019

Education Podcasts

Amid Sound and Fury Over NYC School Diversity Proposal, a Sober Discussion

Yes, the School Diversity Advisory Group called for ending Gifted & Talented programs. But, as a group member and a Council education leader told the Max & Murphy Show,…

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Jul 2019

Climate and Environment

Critical Voice for Ethnic Community Press Re-launches at City Limits News

Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and City Limits Announce Plan to Preserve ‘Voices of New York’

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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