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** Health-Aide Shortage Stirs Worry as Medicaid Budget Gap Looms ([link removed][UNIQID])
New York State’s Slice of the Rural Jail Building Boom ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** Fewer Mexican Immigrants Coming to New York, Studies Say ([link removed][UNIQID])
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** Max & Murphy: The Push to Roll Back New York’s Criminal Justice Reforms
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DAs and conservative pols are denouncing criminal justice reforms that, after years of advocacy, were finally adopted in Albany last spring. Bail reform and discovery reform are the focus of the ire.
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** Health-Aide Shortage Stirs Worry as Medicaid Budget Gap Looms
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Because of low wages and competition from other sectors, 17 percent of home health aide jobs across the state are unfilled.
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Above all else, safety is the most important goal for transporting students to and from school. The School Bus Safety Forum presented by City & State and BusPatrol on December 3rd will address new rules and regulations meant to protect the 150,000 New York City students who rely on school buses every day. This event will examine new innovations as well as legislative and regulatory tools to build a 21st century school safety ecosystem. Claim your FREE ticket ([link removed][UNIQID]) to learn about the present and future of school bus safety in New York City.
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** New York State’s Slice of the Rural Jail Building Boom
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A new report says rural counties, suburban areas and small cities are adding jail capacity even as big cities and state systems shed cells. A handful of upstate counties are part of that trend.
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Voices of NY
** Fewer Mexican Immigrants Coming to New York, Studies Say
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A number of recent studies stating that Mexican migration to the U.S. is showing clear signs of deceleration, a trend that’s being detected in immigrant-rich New York neighborhoods like Sunset Park, El Diario reports.
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** Video: Immigrant Street Artist Aims to ‘Tag’ the Next Generation
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AJ Lavilla was born in the Philippines and moved to New York when he was fourteen. Here he pursued his dreams and became a self-taught street artist.
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** Chinese New Yorkers Overestimate Their Own Health Status, New Report Finds
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Dr. Henry Chen, president of SOMOS, said the health status of Chinese New Yorkers is frequently misperceived, neglected and oversimplified. He said Asian-Americans are often believed to be “model minorities,” but most are average New Yorkers who face challenges when it comes to their health, Sing Tao Daily reports.
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** Llamada de emergencia: propuesta para salvar la crisis de los medallones de taxis
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** Cuomo’s Fight with National Grid Shows Need to Keep Indian Point Open
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‘The Indian Point plants should remain operational until such time as new, carbon-free resources can, if possible, replace them.’
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** Renewable Rikers is a Double Win for Justice
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‘The closure of the Rikers jails gives us a once-in-a-generation chance to think about the infrastructure that our city needs now and will need in the future, as well as the infrastructure we currently have that harms environmental justice communities.’
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** Be Wary of the Deal Between Cuomo and CUNY’s Union
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‘It’s not surprising that labor negotiations have also been rigged in favor of Gov. Cuomo and the moneyed interests behind him.’
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Jobs
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** Center for an Urban Future
Education & Workforce Fellow
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The Center for an Urban Future (CUF) seeks a full-time Education & Workforce Fellow with exceptional writing skills to lead new research on expanding economic opportunity in New York City. CUF is a leading New York City–based think tank whose reports, commentaries, and data briefs serve as a catalyst for smart and sustainable public policies to reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in New York.
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** Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative
Executive Director
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The 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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