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New York’s Health Companies Could Pocket Millions Meant for Low-Wage Care Aides
This story originally appeared in New York Focus, a nonprofit news publication investigating power in New York. Sign up for their newsletter here. Two health care companies are positioned to keep tens of millions of dollars that are meant to benefit the army of low-wage home health aides who care for disabled and elderly New Yorkers. The […]
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Bronx Man Detained at CECOT Reunites With Family in Venezuela
This article was originally published by Documented, an independent, non-profit newsroom dedicated to reporting with and for immigrant communities in New York City. After spending 125 days in El Salvador’s notorious Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison, Merwil Gutiérrez, a 20-year-old asylum seeker detained in The Bronx, was released last Friday to Venezuela with more than 200 other detainees, Documented […]
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$241 Million Later, Brand-New Bellevue Hospital Jail Unit Sits Empty
After years of planning, a new jail bed unit in Bellevue Hospital for seriously ill detainees from Rikers Island has been mostly ready to open since January — but sits empty because jail officials say they don’t have enough officers to operate it, and state inspectors say it is still not safe enough. The 104-bed […]
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Mamdani Wins Endorsement of Powerful Health Care Union Once Loyal to Cuomo
1199SEIU, the largest healthcare union in the country with 450,000 members in the Northeast, endorsed Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani for mayor on Friday, after backing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the June primary. The politically powerful union, fresh off of its own contentious leadership election, is the latest labor group to line up behind Mamdani […]
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Bronx Defenders Join Growing Legal Services Worker Strike
Attorneys with three publicly funded legal services providers for low-income New Yorkers went on strike Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management on raises. Staff at the Bronx Defenders, the Center for Appellate Litigation and the Office of the Appellate Defender join the roughly 400 attorneys and legal staff across four other […]
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