LI officials mull emergency food stamp program for Sandy victims
Leave your thoughtsLocal social service and immigration activists are pushing Nassau and Suffolk counties to take part in a federal emergency food…
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Video: New Report Reveals Immigrants Face Post-Sandy Hardships
Leave your thoughtsA new report released by the advocacy group Make the Road New York revealed that 40 percent of immigrants surveyed…
Organizaciones piden implementación de programa D-SNAP
Leave your thoughtsDocenas de individuos y familias afectadas por el Huracán Sandy, y organizaciones locales, se unieron para pedirle a los condados…
Unmet Needs: Superstorm Sandy and Immigrant Communities in the Metro New York Area
Leave your thoughtsEXECUTIVE SUMMARY More than a month after Superstorm Sandy, many New Yorkers continue to struggle with the devastation of their…
Leaders of The Pack
Leave your thoughtsSince coming out in Puerto Rico in a fervently Catholic household, Boricua activist and published poet Karina Claudio-Betancourt has come…
Video: Advocacy Group Says FEMA Has Not Reached Out Enough To Immigrants Hit By Sandy
Leave your thoughtsAn immigrant advocacy group says FEMA has not done enough to reach out out to immigrants affected by Hurricane Sandy.…
Immigrants are hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy
Leave your thoughtsHard-hit immigrant communities are getting little Hurricane Sandy aid and displaced residents looking for new homes face a spike in…
MLS Lobbyist Erodes Queens Parkland While on High Line Board, Critics Say
Leave your thoughtsCritics of a proposed Major League Soccer stadium say the head of a MLS lobbying firm deserves a penalty card for advocating…
Soccer Stadium Petitions Hit Bloomberg’s Desk
Leave your thoughtsA group of Queens residents [including Make the Road New York] who spent part of last weekend marching to prevent…
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will introduce a bill that would block the NYPD from turning over some arrested immigrants to feds
Leave your thoughtsThe bill is an effort to circumvent the Secure Communities program, which requires police to send fingerprints of everyone in…