Hard labor as unions whack Weiner
Leave your thoughtsBig Labor is going after Anthony Weiner. An education coalition co-founded by the city’s powerful unions helped organize a rally…
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Obamas immigration campaign
Leave your thoughtsWASHINGTON — President Obama held a campaign-style rally in Las Vegas yesterday in his biggest attempt yet to muscle immigration…
Min-wage surprise
Leave your thoughtsALBANY — A proposed increase in New York’s minimum wage took a step forward yesterday when the state Legislature’s top…
Sick day activists target Quinn
Leave your thoughtsA group [including Make the Road New York] pushing a controversial paid-sick-days bill will up the ante on City Council…
Relief for NY’s aliens who can live and work here without fear of deportation
Leave your thoughtsIt wasn’t the Dream Act, but it was still a dream come true. Young illegal-immigrant New Yorkers lined up by…
Working stiff Employees scared to take off & be replaced
Leave your thoughtsCall them the insecure employed, quiet casualties of the record-high underemployment caused by the Great Recession. Life on the job…
Cancer gal hails victory
Leave your thoughtsBrooklyn resident Irania Sanchez [member of Make the Road New York] said the Supreme Court’s ObamaCare decision could be a lifesaver…
‘Undocumented’ Queens teens no longer fear being deported after President Obama’s order
Leave your thoughtsIt’s a dream come true. Two city teens who live in fear of deportation were overjoyed when President Obama yesterday…
DOE ax hits 24 schools A political reprieve for two, but . . .
Leave your thoughtsThe city’s education-policy board voted just before midnight last night to close and then immediately reopen two dozen schools with…
Plea To End Classroom Closures
Leave your thoughtsDennis Walcott’s first assignment as schools chancellor should be reversing the policy of shutting down struggling schools, said the teachers union…