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"A Schneps employee making $40K makes $3,333/month before taxes; the cheapest health insurance plan costs $2,811 a month for an employee, spouse, & child. An employee could pay as little as $227/month but that plan carries a $7K deductible."
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An assisted living program in Hell’s Kitchen held a Knicks Game 4 watch party. Many attendees said they’d been following the team for decades, and they shared what a championship win would mean to them.
America's Seniors Face Healthcare 'Calamity' If Trump Expels Haitians
At one NYC nursing home, there are shifts with so many Haitian workers that a third of residents and patients would be left without caregivers
7 day gift link to my @business story:
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Important trend here —> young people can’t even imagine being able to afford homeownership, something that started probably post 2010 housing crash for millennial generations and this is dramatically (imo) reshaping politics
"To help struggling riders like me, who face impossible choices with every commute, @NYCMayor must extend Fair Fares to New Yorkers earning up to 300% of the federal poverty level," writes our member and @1199SEIU
home healthcare aide Susie Kamara.
Scoop: Mount Sinai is calling up parents of trans patients who received care there as minors to say they are sharing their medical records with the Trump admin. But Mount Sinai won’t confirm the existence of a federal subpoena. W/ @giuliaheyward
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On Saturday, while covering a protest at Delaney Hall for the AP, Angelina Katsanis' camera bag went missing.
Inside was $10K worth of gear, her biz cards and an Airtag -- which soon began to ping from home of a NJ sergeant. He's now facing charges.
https://t.co/fCHmWnJETI
"The individuals—some of them have no one but us. Some of them, bank holidays, Christmas, birthdays, no one comes to see them. We spend more time with them than we do with our own families."
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In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen of our colleagues — full-time faculty and staff — in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.
I encourage you all to read about Dolores Bustamante, a longtime apple picker & advocate for the rights of farm workers in upstate NY.
She was instrumental in banning state troopers from asking immigration status & helped pass the Green Light Law.
Last month, ICE arrested her.
The First Amendment freedom of the press was not enough to shield photojournalists from assault by ICE agents outside Delaney Hall late on Thursday night.
Full story: https://t.co/lg7zG3Xx6z
We've long been raising the alarm about illegal e-motos, which are NOT e-bikes and ILLEGAL to ride on our streets... but are legal to purchase and own.