Ed Reed for the Office of Mayor Bill de Blasio
Mayor de Blasio introduces Steven Banks as commissioner of the Department of Social Services in early 2014.
Banks, the first head of the city’s Department Social Services, said he would be departing at the end of the year to take a job as special counsel at a Manhattan-based white shoe law firm, leaving his role for Mayor-elect Eric Adams to fill in the next administration.
‘Currently only 25 percent of eligible households receive the housing voucher, meaning that nearly everyone in need of aid does not receive it. The impact of fully funding vouchers would be astounding: it would help an estimated 1.1 million households in New York state alone.’
The new report also details how former Gov. Andrew Cuomo used state resources, including personnel, to publish his 2020 book, flouting state policy in the process.
Una encuesta realizada por el Pew Research Center revela que la mayoría de los latinos dicen que el color de la piel afecta sus oportunidades en los Estados Unidos y condiciona la vida diaria, y aquellos latinos con un color de piel más oscuro reportaron más situacinoes de discriminación que los latinos con un color de piel más clara.
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