A food vendor works on Fordham Road in The Bronx, April 5, 2024. Credit: Alex Krales/THE CITY By Haidee Chu For days, street vendor Miguel Varela slept in a storage unit where he keeps his merchandise because he can no longer afford a roof over his head after racking up ticket after ticket in Parkchester in The […]
By Alisha Ebrahimji and Alexandra Ross | CNN Iowa is taking a page out of Texas’ book as its governor signed a bill into law this week allowing law enforcement officers to arrest some undocumented migrants. Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday that makes it a crime to be in the state after being deported, […]
By Joe Hernandez | NPR Twenty years ago, two economists responded to a slew of help-wanted ads in Boston and Chicago newspapers using a set of fictitious names to test for racial bias in the job market. The watershed study found that applicants with names suggesting they were white got 50% more callbacks from employers than those […]
Editorial credit: MacroEcon / Shutterstock.com Dear New Yorkers, As reported in the New York Times this morning, the Adams Administration just announced that it is cutting ties with the controversial vendor DocGo after my office sounded the alarm on its dubious no-bid contract to provide services to asylum seekers. This is a huge win for New York City taxpayers. As you […]
Effective May 9, 2024, we will reject affirmative asylum applications improperly filed at service centers instead of at the lockbox with jurisdiction over your place of residence. We announced this change in filing location on May 31, 2023, and finalized the associated revision to Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal, in the Federal Register, 88 […]
By Giulia Mcdonnell Nieto Del Rio | Documented In February, Mayor Eric Adams’ administration announced that the city would distribute prepaid debit cards to migrant families to use at supermarkets, convenience stores, grocery stores and bodegas. The pilot program began rolling out on Monday, and by next week about 115 cards will have gone to […]
Editorial credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com By Greg B. Smith Over the weekend the city’s homeless services agency began housing migrant men in a newly opened 400-bed shelter that sits alongside Brooklyn’s polluted Gowanus Canal — before state environmental officials have begun planned testing of the site for potential toxic contamination. The Department of Social […]
By Rob Wile | NBC News Blockbuster job growth continues to power the U.S. economy, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting 303,000 payrolls added in March. Usually, such strong growth might signal that inflation could pick up. If employers see more demand for goods and services, they need to hire more workers — and if there aren’t […]
Editorial credit: OogImages / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice Washington, DC — This afternoon, President Biden will visit the site of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse and meet with the families of the six men who lost their lives. The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice: “Joe Biden has been […]
By Gabe Ortiz | America’s Voice Despite continued uncertainty due to ongoing litigation led by corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a slate of Republican attorneys general, researchers say that results from an annual survey of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients show that the program’s beneficiaries “are more integrated in the American economy than they have […]