Lawmakers rally with fast food workers to back NYC wage hike
Leave your thoughtsA dozen lawmakers rallied alongside about 50 people at a midtown McDonald’s Thursday to advocate for raising the minimum wage.…
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Black And Latino Lawmakers Pushing New Minimum Wage Push
Leave your thoughtsA coalition of community organizations [including Make the Road New York] and black and Latino lawmakers on Thursday plan to…
Queens immigrant population keeps booming
Leave your thoughtsQueens remains the borough of immigrants. More than 75,000 new immigrants streamed into Queens over the past three years —…
My Immigration Story
Leave your thoughtsWhen I was younger, I lived with my grandparents while my parents traveled to other Mexican states to find work.…
Editorial: Hempstead school district is exposed again
Leave your thoughtsIt really should come as little surprise that a judge has found that the Hempstead school board acted improperly when…
Thousands of New Yorkers now eligible for paid sick days
Leave your thoughtsLess than two weeks after it was signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, an expanded law making hundreds of thousands…