To assist workers displaced by the World Trade Center collapse, the state Department of Labor has re-opened walk-in unemployment centers and applied for federal dollars to create jobs for the newly unemployed at Ground Zero.
While financial aid pours in to help workers whose jobs were based inside the Twin Towers, businesses one degree removed from the Trade Center are suffering alone: Last week, the limo business took a nose dive, and the drivers wonder how they will survive.
With the city’s attention focused on the terrorist attacks, and with some South Asian and Arab immigrants still reeling from bias attacks waged against them over the last two weeks, City Council candidates fear their hopes of becoming the first person from their countries to be elected to public office in the United States will be dashed tomorrow, primary day.
Albany hasn’t yet revoked the “bare bones” budget from last July, and New York State’s social service agencies are getting closer to slashing services and laying off staff.
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