By Fisayo Okare, DOCUMENTED | Editorial credit: Ben Von Klemperer / shutterstock.com In what is likely to be the most consequential year for immigrant New Yorkers in decades, Gov. Kathy Hochul said nothing about protecting immigrant New Yorkers, the state collaborating with or resisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, or anything related to Trump’s […]
By Barbara Caress, Center for New York City Affairs “A racket.” That’s how Governor Kathy Hochul has bluntly described a key part of what is unquestionably New York City’s biggest job-creating industry: Medicaid-financed home care. Without home care increases, New York City’s job count would still be less than it was pre-pandemic. Hochul wants to save an […]
By Reuven Blau, THE CITY | Photo Courtesy THE CITY After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help. Black and Hispanic people in New York state prisons have a much higher chance to be denied parole than whites over the past […]