[NYCHA]
Williams: “This situation is a dire emergency for children across the city…with the thousands of empty hotel rooms and suites across the city, that these rooms immediately be used to house these families until the units are safe for the return of children.”
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[Racism & Health]
Sen. Warren: “It is time we start treating structural racism like we would treat any other public health problem or disease…My bill with Representatives Lee and Pressley is a first step to create anti-racist federal health policy.”
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[School Budgets\COVID-19]
Rep. Norton: “Many schools, like those in the District, have been forced to go virtual because of the pandemic…The delay in passing the Heroes Act, which contains $200B for schools, is unconscionably shortchanging our children .”
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[American Federation of Teachers\Randi Weingarten]
Weingarten: “If people are looking for someone to blame for school buildings staying closed, they should look no further than DeVos, Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”
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[COVID-19\School Reopening]
Consumer Reports: “Fifty-seven percent of Black Americans and 52 percent of Hispanic Americans say they think that schools should remain closed and that children should begin the school year taking classes online, compared with 25 percent of whites.”
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[East Harlem Scholars Academies]
Dr. Robert S. Harvey: “We are approaching the reopening of our campuses with a commitment to science, data, and the unfolding reality of COVID reemergence that is happening across the country.”
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[COVID-19\Sick Leave\Trump Administration]
James: “The paid sick leave and emergency family leave provisions of the FFCRA were enacted to protect public health and to provide economic security to working families. The Trump Administration’s rule makes it harder.
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[City Harvest\Hunger\COVID-19]
City Harvest, New York City’s private response to hunger and largest food rescue organization, has mobilized to feed children, families, and all of our neighbors in need during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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[NYS Coronavirus Funeral Guidelines]
Funeral home workers should follow their routine infection prevention and control precautions when handling a decedent who died of COVID-19
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[Coronavirus\Government Response]
Sanders: “I am doing everything in my power in the U.S. Senate to correct the completely unacceptable federal response to this crisis.”
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