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Head Start supports school readiness for children from birth to age 5, including free childcare, nutrition assistance, health screenings, and resources for pregnant women. It serves 42,997 people across New York…

ByDaniel Parra 3Comments

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May 2025

Featured Government Immigration Justice Labor

In Trump’s First 100 Days, Immigrant Arrests Stir Fear Across New York—But Also Forge Community Bonds

While specific figures for New York under the new federal administration are not yet available, media reports and press releases from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) suggest there have…

ByDaniel Parra 11Comments

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Feb 2025

Government Health Immigration Politics Transportation

Federal Challenge of NY’s Green Light Law is About Fear, Not Safety, Advocates Argue

“Having a license has changed us,” said Luis Jiménez, president of the farmworker-led, grassroots organization Alianza Agrícola. “For me personally, it allowed me to take my children to school, and…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Nov 2024

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration In Depth Investigations NYCHA Politics

What Trump’s Win Could Mean for Housing, Climate and Immigrant Communities in NYC

With Donald Trump expected to return to the White House in January, City Limits takes a closer look at the former and future president’s platform and promises around key policy…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByDaniel Parra

ByMariana Simões

ByTatyana Turner 1Comment

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Jun 2023

Economy Education Government Housing and Homelessness

Subsidized Child Care Pilot for Undocumented Families Renewed in City Budget Deal

The city pilot program called Promise NYC, which covered up to $700 a week in child care to undocumented children with low-income parents during the second half of 2023, will…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Jun 2023

Government Immigration Justice Politics

Immigrant Advocates Decry ‘Disappointing’ Legislative Year in Albany

The state legislature—which officially ended its session last week, though the Assembly is expected to return briefly before the end of the month—has so far failed to pass major legislation…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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May 2023

Education Government Immigration

After Years-Long Push, City College to Open Center for Immigrant Students

Despite having an undocumented student population of more than 5,000, and more than a third of undergraduate students who are born outside the mainland U.S., the entire CUNY system has…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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Apr 2023

Education Government Housing and Homelessness

With City Child Care Program to End in June, Asylum-Seeking Parents Worry Over Plans for Summer

Promise NYC was intended to help asylum-seeker families whose immigration status makes them ineligible for other, federally-funded child care assistance. But the program, which offered subsidized care for 600 children,…

ByDaniel Parra 2Comments

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Mar 2023

Economy Education Government

Need to Know: How Can Undocumented Students Study at a NY College or University?

Since New York passed the Jose Peralta DREAM Act in 2019, making immigrant students eligible for state-administered financial aid they were previously cut off from, more colleges and organizations have…

ByDaniel Parra 3Comments

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Feb 2023

Economy Education Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration In Depth Justice Politics

What Hochul & Adams’ Budgets Include for Immigrant Communities—& What’s Left Out

Advocates are sounding the alarm over both Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams’ spending proposals, which failed to include several flagship programs they’ve fought for in recent years as well as…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

NYC Head Start Providers Assessing Impact of Plan to Exclude Undocumented Children

In Trump’s First 100 Days, Immigrant Arrests Stir Fear Across New York—But Also Forge Community Bonds

Federal Challenge of NY’s Green Light Law is About Fear, Not Safety, Advocates Argue

What Trump’s Win Could Mean for Housing, Climate and Immigrant Communities in NYC

Subsidized Child Care Pilot for Undocumented Families Renewed in City Budget Deal

Immigrant Advocates Decry ‘Disappointing’ Legislative Year in Albany

After Years-Long Push, City College to Open Center for Immigrant Students

With City Child Care Program to End in June, Asylum-Seeking Parents Worry Over Plans for Summer

Need to Know: How Can Undocumented Students Study at a NY College or University?

What Hochul & Adams’ Budgets Include for Immigrant Communities—& What’s Left Out

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