Los recortes, incluidos algunos previstos para el próximo año fiscal que comienza en julio, incluyen reducciones para programas que ofrecen clases de inglés y ayuda legal a personas en riesgo de deportación, en un momento en que la demanda de estos servicios no para de aumentar, dicen los proveedores.
Hasta el mes pasado, el Estado de Nueva York había repartido algo más de $2 millones de los $27 millones de dólares reservados para el fondo de ayuda, según datos recientes compartidos con City Limits. En total, 405 de los 554 neoyorquinos que lo aplicaron han sido aprobados, y 352 han recibido la ayuda.
As of last month, the state had doled out just over $2 million of the $27 million set aside for the relief fund, according to recent data shared with City Limits. In total, 405 of the 554 New Yorkers who applied have been approved, and 352 have actually received the aid.
‘With my savings gone and just working one day a week, I’m standing in food pantry lines for hours just to get enough to eat. I have to constantly borrow money because I am afraid that if I do not pay my rent, I could lose my home. Each day I worry, how will I ever be able to pay back the money I owe?’
A measure to ensure all workers have paid sick leave had enough votes to pass the City Council. So why did Speaker Quinn kill it?
Third time’s the charm for the bill, which requires detailed reporting on school crime, arrests, suspensions and expulsions.
Two days after a New York State Senate bill that would have outlawed discrimination against transgender and gender-bending people was defeated in the Senate’s Judiciary Committee a Queens homeless shelter for gay and transgender youth suffered an attack.Sharon Stapel, executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP), issued a press release denouncing the vote. “Given the rampant discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming people in New York, AVP believes this bill is critical to protecting the rights of transgender people when seeking employment, housing, credit and using public accommodations,” the statement said in part.All 11 Republicans and one Bronx Democrat, Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr, voted against the bill, the Gender Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA). The rest of the Democrats on the committee voted for it. Diaz, Sr., who is a minister according to his online biography, declined to explain his vote to City Limits. “I’m not talking about that.
Hundreds of NYC’s luxury residential developments are vacant. Advocates want them opened to the homeless.
Fights over congestion pricing and the city’s sanitation strategy have receded from the headlines. But in North Brooklyn, worry is still in the air.
More than 400 New Yorkers went to Albany today to demand greater protections for tenants, including a bill that would repeal vacancy decontrol.
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