‘I don’t know that the diagnostic incidents of OCD has gone up, but the symptom occurrence and the severity has exacerbated with the pandemic,’ says Theresa Hsu-Walklet, a psychologist and the assistant director of the Pediatric Behavioral Health Integration Program at Montefiore Medical Center.
‘Under the CCIA, there would be fees on air pollution emissions, in recognition of the negative externalities they produce. Such fees are profoundly fair: it is not so much a punitive tax as it is correcting for market distortions by incorporating the costs society incurs from air pollution.’
‘The time has come to remove corporate profiteering from the picture altogether. Two new bills —the NY Build Public Renewables Act and the forthcoming NY Utility Democracy Act—would do just that, initiating a takeover of the state’s investor-owned utilities that would make them publicly owned and democratically accountable.’
‘Skateboarding has never been a personal passion,’ chef Hervé Riou tells French Morning of his efforts to build a community skate garden near Prospect Park. ‘But you have to open up your soul, open up to others.’
¿Cómo funcionó el fondo de ayuda para inmigrantes y trabajadores excluídos en California y Chicago? ¿Qué lecciones puede aprender el estado de Nueva York de otras experiencias en la implementación del fondo para trabajadores excluidos?
‘Since the start of the pandemic, many hours were cut, and hundreds of women who already were burdened with wages below the $15 minimum wage got the virus and were not paid sick days,’ Mahoma López, an organizer with the Laundry Workers Center told El Diario.
City Limits hosted a mayoral forum on aging, quizzing the candidates on how they would serve their older constituents when it comes to affordable housing, discrimination in the workplace, social services, internet access and street safety.
The Democratic frontrunner has taken heat for his answer to a question in 2020 about how he would explain his support for late-term abortion to people who support limited abortion rights.
Tune in to City Limits’ mayoral forum on aging policy on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 with candidates Eric Adams, Shaun Donovan, Kathryn Garcia and Ray McGuire.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) opens on April 12 a nationwide program to help families pay funeral costs for victims of COVID-19.
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