You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The actual reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.
Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.
We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.
We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.
Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.
That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.
This week, I will be forcing a vote to block nearly $500 million in bombs and bulldozers to Israel. Enough is enough.
U.S. taxpayers must not keep funding the Netanyahu government’s mass killing and displacement of civilians in Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.
An OBAMA APPOINTED judge just saved NPR and PBS. That means your vote from 2012 is helping stop corruption and protect free speech FOURTEEN years later. This is why you vote
Hey Chicago! If you live in or around Hyde Park area, don’t go to the new Barnes & Noble. Call & Response Books is AROUND THE BLOCK, Black owned by a husband and wife couple, and their selections are amazing. They host community events all the time and have a zine! Support them!
I actually dont care if he saved puppies from a burning house while curing cancer in a steel mill.
You do NOT have to be a “good person” for it to still be WRONG for the police to kill unarmed people. I’m NOT going to play into that