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What’s Wrong with Medicare Advantage?
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Will the city council back the plan to switch over municipal retirees to privately-run Medicare Advantage?
Why Bernie’s Medicare Expansion Plan Got Snuffed Out
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Mutual Aid Groups Mobilize in Response to Migrant Influx
Ariadna Phillips of South Bronx Mutual/Mutual Aid Collective tells the NY City Council about the city’s failure to meet the basic needs of migrants.
Russians Helping Ukrainians? An LGBTQ+ Group Leads the Way
RUSA LGBTQ+ is working hard to help queer people fleeing the war with Russia.
Welcoming the Stranger: An Interview with New York Immigration Coalition’s Murad Awawdeh
We talk with the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition about its response to the recent influx of asylum-seeking migrants from border states.
NYU Adjuncts Begin Strike Authorization Vote
The university has offered a 6% pay increase that ACT-UAW 7902 says doesn’t keep up with the rate of inflation.
Brooklyn Public Library vs. the Book Banners
Newly-minted BPL e-cards are now available to young readers in all 50 states as book restrictions proliferate.
Fran Hawthorne’s new book, I Meant to Tell You, is a redemptive tale that illuminates the tenuous ties that bind us.
