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31 March 2011
newsWorkers’ centers: A clubhouse for struggle, supportOn a recent late-winter afternoon, the workers' center on the second floor of a nondescript office building in New York City's Chinatown was full and busy. Everyone had just eaten lunch; warm soup was welcome after picketing in the cold outside an offending restaurant, Saigon Grill on Manhattan's Upper West Side. more> Executive Director and Program Director of the Chinese Staff & Workers' Association Wing S. Lam receives an honorary degree.
Parents learn how to identify gang activityManhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. said his office has seen an increase in violent crimes in the last year with over 325 cases involving knives and guns. In about a fourth of those cases, the suspects were 18 years old or younger. more> The IRS considers illegal immigrants taxpayersAccording to the IRS, in 2006, 1.5 million non-citizens paid their taxes through the ITIN program – almost half of them were undocumented. In 2007, these numbers held steady, adding billions of dollars to the Treasury coffers. more> City cuts housing program for the homelessThe Legal Aid Society is looking to sue the city after it suddenly pulled the plug on a controversial program that gives rent subsidies to 15,000 at-risk households. more> City cuts housing program for the homeless
AUDIO: Legal Affairs correspondent Mimi Rosenberg spoke with Steven Banks, Attorney-in-Chief of the Legal Aid Society about Mayor Bloomberg's plan to remove the Advantage subsidies for 15,000 formerly homeless New Yorkers over WBAI's Wakeup Call. more> Love raps: NYC domestic violence called highest in nationIn a report released last week, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said that "police officers respond to over 700 domestic violence 911 calls each day in the city." This number puts New York City at the top of the list of all urban cities for domestic violence. more> A look at NYC domestic violence
Senators seek to make visas easy for immigrant entrepreneursThe StartUp Visa Act of 2011 was introduced by Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Mark Udall (D-CO). The Act will amend immigration law to give immigrant entrepreneurs three new options for entry or retention of residency. more> What you need to know before filing for an H-1B visa.
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AARP survey of older African-American workers in NY points to importance of staying relevantWhere do older African Americans stand in the workplace in view of the great recession, a rapidly aging population, new technology, and emerging fields of job growth? AARP and the National Urban League joined forces to get some answers. more> Emigration leaves ghost towns behindUnemployment and unfertile land, in other words no chance to get ahead, are reasons enough to migrate to other places in Mexico or to the United States. more> |
MEET THE ETHNIC PRESSReporting from Communist Poland to multicultural New York, Tomasz Deptula speaks of transitions with NYCMA
Tomasz Deptula, columnist and business/web editor at Nowy Dziennik-Polish Daily News more> OP/EDEmpower Black American familiesFor sure, there are many persistent social and racial inequities that besiege African Americans. But, it is also persistently unhealthy to only focus on the negative without ever offering participatory solutions to these problems and inequities, states the author. more> Family secrets
AUDIO: As part of Tell Me More's special focus on the American family today, host Michel Martin speaks with biracial authors June Cross and Gregory Williams. Both grew up estranged from their white heritage, in part, because of a sense of shame. NPR's Michel Martin reports. more> Latin America: Obama’s visitObama's visit to Latin America should not awaken hopes of enormous results. The United States has had little to do with the best things that have been happening there: the explosion of the middle class and the marginalization of the extreme left. more> Why are Africans dying young in the U.S.?Up until five years ago, Africans in America, especially the Nigerians, started to express quiet discontent on the prevalent increase in the observance of wake-keeping for relations who died at home. Fuelled by the need to raise money needed to give the dead a befitting burial, the culture of wake-keeping, for some, grew into another reason to party. more> briefsYou can prevent TB
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