More than three months after the move-out date—and after CUNY approved refunds for graduating students—at least some CUNY families face obstacles trying to learn when students who graduated this spring will get their refunds.
‘The most basic function of government is to keep its people safe. And so there are reforms to our health system that must be made immediately.’
New York City’s relief program for undocumented immigrants affected by COVID-19 has refused to disclose its community-based partners, citing fears that applicants would overwhelm them.
But Michael Mulgrew believes a blended learning model can work.
‘When healthcare is bound up with policing, more people get sick, and more die.‘
Salon workers and owners, many of them immigrants, head back to work this week as part of New York’s Phase 3 reopening. But many are worried about how new social distancing restrictions will impact their livelihood.
‘Those in power are willing to be extremely broad in their use of COVID-19 as a justification for bending certain legal protections.’
Barbara from Rockaway, Queens, planned to go to Poland in May for her daughter’s wedding and her granddaughter’s First Communion, but was halted by quarantine. “I did everything I could to be able to go there to be part of these important events,” she says.
‘As a community, we are not taking a knee waiting on the government to provide solutions. We are exercising our power and local resources to develop the hands-on solutions and practices that will most benefit our community.’
El Centro Hispano in White Plains has been assisting families with food and housing insecurity during quarantine. The center reopened for the first time last week.
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