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** Workers Await Gov’s Action to Make Wage-Theft Deadbeats Pay ([link removed])
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** Chris Quinn to Anti-Shelter Protesters: ‘Why Do You Hate Homeless Children?’ ([link removed])
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** Latino Street Vendors Cheer Bill That Would Lift Permit Caps ([link removed])
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** Workers Await Gov’s Action to Make Wage-Theft Deadbeats Pay
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The legislature passed a law allowing workers to place a lien on owners’ personal property to prevent them from absconding with cash and starting fresh without making court-mandated payments to workers. It awaits Gov. Cuomo’s signature.

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** Chris Quinn to Anti-Shelter Protesters: ‘Why Do You Hate Homeless Children?’
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It was cold on Wednesday when Christine Quinn—CEO of the homeless-services organization WIN—spoke to the Max & Murphy Show on WBAI. For the former Council speaker and 2013 mayoral candidate, the temperature was an important point of reference.
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** Latino Street Vendors Cheer Bill That Would Lift Permit Caps
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State Senator Jessica Ramos is promoting a bill that seeks to solve the problem by lifting the limits on the number of street vending permits currently in place for sidewalk commercial activities — an effort supported by vendors.
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** Voices of NY Video: Keeping the Irish Language Alive … in Manhattan
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In New York’s Greenwich Village, there is a home for Irish culture and the Irish language.

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A Cambodian Temple in Bedford Park
Every year at the end of October, the Cambodian community of New York city gathers in their Bronx temple to pay their respects, in keeping with their Buddhist faith.
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** ‘What Are Those Questions?’ Hispanic Voters Say They Lacked Information at the Polls
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‘I was clear that I would be voting for the Public Advocate and the Queens District Attorney, but I did not know that there would be all these strange questions and other things about the courts, so what I did was choose all the Democrats I saw who were women,’ one voter told El Diario.
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** Books: When Gentrification Came to Greenpoint
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In an excerpt from a new book, Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents, an up-close look at one tenant-landlord dispute shows what’s really happening around the city.

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** The 2020 Election Season is Underway, and Jamaal Bowman’s Bid Deserves Attention
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‘The outcome will further test how much traditional politics still holds sway.’
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** East Side Coastal Resiliency Plan Must Move Forward
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‘We must get community-led resiliency projects off the ground in other vulnerable waterfront communities, and it starts with the advancement of the ESCR project.’

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** If Council Passes Homeless Set-Aside Law, De Blasio Should Veto It
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‘It’s counterproductive to tie the hands of the City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), an agency already stretched to the limit as they attempt to deal with an affordable housing crisis,’ writes one former HPD commissioner.

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** Traditional Dairy Products Are on the Decline. That’s Good News.
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‘The rapid growth of the plant-based dairy alternative market can be credited to these health and environmental motives, among others.’
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Jobs
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** Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative
Executive Director
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T​he Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) is a community-led effort to build an equitable, sustainable, and democratic local economy that creates shared wealth and ownership for low-income people of color—what we call economic democracy.
We are looking for an Executive Director to lead BCDI’s ongoing efforts to develop, coordinate, and implement strategies, partnerships, and projects to realize our vision for systems change in the Bronx, where people share ownership over the resources in their community and participate equitably in deciding how they are used.
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** Pratt Center for Community Development
Director of Policy and Planning
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Pratt Center currently seeks to hire a Director of Policy and Planning (DPP) to lead in the development of our policy & advocacy initiatives on issues including economic and workforce development, transportation, sustainability and environmental justice, land use, and community development. The DPP will supervise a staff of urban planners and GIS specialists who manage data-driven research projects, community planning technical assistance projects, and other collaborations with research and community-based partners. The DPP will lead the development of new grant-funded or client-based policy and urban planning projects; and will oversee project implementation and development of deliverables including community plans, data visualizations, and policy platforms. The DPP is responsible for the delivery of all of Pratt Center’s policy-related communications, including positions and testimony, policy reports and issue briefs, and other communications.
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** Inclusiv
Senior Program Officer
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The Senior Program Officer will play a critical role in expanding Inclusiv’s impact by leading key programs and initiatives that expand financial inclusion in underserved communities with and through our community development credit union network. Reporting to the VP of Strategic Initiatives, the Senior Program Officer will oversee and grow existing programs and help shape new initiatives that seek to improve the financial health of low-income people.
At Inclusiv, we believe that true financial inclusion is a fundamental right. Our mission is to help low- and moderate-income people and communities achieve financial independence through credit unions. We dedicate ourselves to closing the gaps and removing barriers to financial opportunities for people living in distressed and underserved communities.
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** Inclusiv
Communications Officer
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We seek a dynamic communications professional to execute our national marketing and communications strategy, and to engage and cultivate stakeholders among the media, a diverse practitioner field, and social impact investors. The Officer will be an excellent writer, effective at communicating clearly with diverse audiences and stakeholders across multiple channels.
At Inclusiv, we believe that true financial inclusion is a fundamental right. Our mission is to help low- and moderate-income people and communities achieve financial independence through credit unions. We dedicate ourselves to closing the gaps and removing barriers to financial opportunities for people living in distressed and underserved communities.
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