“Last year, the federal government earmarked billions of dollars for community-led climate solutions…CUNY can deliver because of its symbiotic relationship to communities, neighborhoods, and families who live, work, and organize on the frontlines.”
Economy
Uno de cada cuatro neoyorquinos agobiado por deudas de préstamos estudiantiles: encuesta
Anastasia Tomkin |
El informe revela disparidades por sexo y raza: las mujeres y las personas de color tienen mayores niveles de deuda y más dificultades para pagarla.
Citywide
Meet Our Summer 2024 Youth Reporting Interns
CLARIFY News |
CLARIFY (The City Limits Accountability Reporting Initiative for Youth) is working with more than two dozen talented high school students from across New York City, who are reporting on issues impacting their communities.
Economy
1 in 4 New York City Residents Burdened With Student Loan Debt: Survey
Anastasia Tomkin |
The report reveal disparities by gender and race, with women and people of color having higher levels of debt and facing more challenges in repaying it.
Citywide
Opinion: Book Banners Are Going After Libraries. But So Is New York City’s Mayor.
Jonathan Friedman |
“Efforts to censor and prohibit books are not the same as municipal negotiations about library operating budgets. But they are not entirely unrelated either. Both are clear indications of how the value of public libraries and access to knowledge is under threat across America.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Investing in Future New Yorkers With ‘Baby Bonds’
Ben Guttmann |
“With investments starting at just $1,000 per newborn, the next generation of New Yorkers will be better prepared to thrive.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: The Mayor Must Protect Homeless Youth
Amy Leipziger |
“The Adams administration, simply put, must do more to address the historic crisis of youth homelessness our city faces. Instead, the administration has made policies that will create a worse situation for some of the most vulnerable young people in our city.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: NYC Can Give the Perfect Gift This Mother’s Day—Investing in Universal Child Care
Talya Wolf |
“It is easy to see how mothers are affected by the prohibitively expensive costs of child care, but perhaps less so to understand it as a communal crisis.”
Education
Can Curbing CUNY’s Carbon Footprint Help Tackle Its Maintenance Problems?
Mariana Simões |
More than half of CUNY’s buildings are 50 years old or older. That’s a problem for the environment: older buildings tend to consume larger quantities of energy, generating more of the greenhouse gasses that lead to climate change.
Education
What Do NYC Youth Want for Earth Day? An End to Fossil Fuels.
Mariana Simões |
“My house gets flooded every single year,” 16-year old Diana Ramirez told City Limits, one of many New York City youth who took to the streets in the lead up to Earth Day to demand people in power stop funding fossil fuels. “The rising sea levels and flooding caused by climate change are affecting me heavily.”
Education
City’s Student Journalists Press for More School Newspapers
Jeanmarie Evelly |
Dozens of young New Yorkers gathered at City Hall Thursday calling for the city to expand support for journalism programs and student newspapers at its schools.
