The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting the underfinanced hospitals serving thousands of poor and working-class New Yorkers the hardest. Now it’s up to State and City policymakers to straighten things out and make New York City’s hospital system work better for everyone.
Read MoreThe sectors of the city's economy hardest hit by the Covid-19 contraction rely heavily on immigrant workers Nearly 200,000 undocumented workers have lost jobs, and they've been left out of many unemployment relief measures.
Read MoreThe recently released admission results for next fall’s classes at New York City’s elite specialized high schools fit a racially and ethnically imbalanced pattern that has been the status quo in recent memory.
Read MoreI’ve learned a lot about what it means to learn and teach with technology. Let me share some advice for parents and teachers. Forget the products. Focus on principles.
Read MoreThe CARES Act will help overcome glaring gaps. But workers and small businesses may not receive aid in a timely fashion. And assistance to immigrants, those without health insurance, and many low-income families will be severely limited.
Read MoreThe Covid-19 outbreak and the massive economic dislocations it has induced have brought renewed attention to the lack of benefits, including employment-based health insurance coverage, typically experienced by workers classified as independent contractors.
Read MoreElected officials have asked businesses and workers to shut down and cease what they do out of justifiable public health concerns. The first order of business for economic stimulus is to make whole those whose jobs ended because public safety demanded that.
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