…money home. Meanwhile the cost of the United States making the world safe for those corporations continues to escalate. Military missions to places like Iraq never seem to end see…
April 13, 2011 By Kismet Barksdale Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Housing Committee Chair Vito Lopez announced the passage of legislation today that would extend and strengthen New York City’s…
…the rise in employer contributions to the City’s Pension Funds has been poor market performance. The lower than expected investment returns accounted for 48% of the cost increase. The study…
…makes the unemployed toil for public assistance checks. According to the New York Daily News article, the Metropolitan Transit Authority eliminated 173 cleaning positions and wants to replace those folks…
April 11, 2011 By Kathleen Fox Casale, M.S. Ed. “Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever…
…globe. The games are the second largest multi sport event in the world, surpassed only by the summer Olympics. This year the World Police & Fire Games will be held…
April 5, 2011 By Anthony M. Figliola Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today announced an agreement on a 2011 – 2012…
…to organize today. One hundred years ago, fire tore through the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Smoke and flames surprised hundreds of garment workers. The stairway doors were locked and, after the…
…reduce salaries by 15% to bring the economy in line with the real world. They should make sure anyone who is in the country illegally should be remove from…
…establish living wages in subsidized developments, as we push to make lives better for today’s largely immigrant workforce, the same forces the Real Estate Board, the proponents of unregulated markets,…
