The City’s plan to move 250,000 retired municipal workers from Medicare to an inferior, privately run plan has been thwarted for now.
If there’s a photo that best exposes just how hollow the political and corporate praise for “essential workers” was…
You Want Me to be Blind and Toothless?
Expanding Medicare coverage to hearing, vision and dental would alleviate the suffering of millions including this writer.
City Medicare Privatization Sparks Retiree Pushback
City retirees and their allies gathered Monday near City Hall Park to protest the proposed privatization of their Medicare…
Black moms suffer disproportionately when giving birth. New York could begin to address that by empowering more Black midwives.
After the Pandemic: A Return to Capitalist Normalcy Will Only Create More Crises
Ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a lot of discussion and speculation in the…
How the MTA Uses the Pandemic to Freeze Out the Homeless
Reduced overnight service, benches removed, loitering laws limiting time spent in subway stations, and the shelters are overflowing. Where to go?
Black Advocates Unite to Overturn The Filibuster, a Jim Crow Relic
This arcane Senate rule was used to thwart civil rights legislation in the 20th Century. In 2021, we cannot allow a Republican minority to use it to block progress for communities of color.
Kingsbrook Hospital Gets a Reprieve
Worker-community alliance pressures state to postpone plans to close a safety net hospital that serves East Flatbush’s predominantly Black and Caribbean community.