As a result of the coronavirus, New York City faces a $9 billion loss in tax revenue and hard choices to make for the city’s future. Public employee layoffs and drastic service cuts are options under discussion to balance the City budget if significant federal relief doesn’t come through.
Read MoreThe experience of emergency child care centers serving the children of essential workers at the height of the pandemic offers insights about re-opening New York’s early education programs.
Read MoreOur colleagues tell us what they’ve been reading during the powerful, disturbing days we’ve all just been through.
Read MoreIf they aren’t careful, the City might sacrifice their commitment to educational equity in the name of emergency modes of on-line learning. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Read MoreMore prevention services, not more reliance on foster care, should be on the agenda as the pandemic crisis starts to lift.
Read More“Zero waste” policies will also create good green jobs, reduce food insecurity, and address climate change.
Read MoreThe crisis, as ever, is white supremacy. But this is not a rerun; this is something new.
Read MoreTo end the effects of structural racism, we will need national standards in public health and public safety.
Read MoreThe increased burning of household trash, a likely side effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, could well make an already desperate health situation in many Black and Latinx communities even worse.
Read MoreCovid-19 relief for tenants and landlords won’t last long. But a swift and dramatic expansion of the existing Housing Choice Voucher program would stabilize their lives.
Read MoreThe author of Last Subway talks about shoring up finances, calming riders' fears, and planning for the future at the nation's largest mass transit system.
Read MoreFor the next school year, here are six key things officials must be focusing on right now.
Read MoreThe 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 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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