[NYC Budget FY 2021]
Williams: “It is an unfortunate fiscal reality that this crisis will require drawing upon our city’s reserves…I further implore our federal government to provide drastically expanded aid to the people of our city to help alleviate the budget deficit.”
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[New York City’s Executive Budget FY21]
At the inception of New York City’s COVID-19 crisis, Mayor de Blasio instructed City agencies to spend was necessary to protect City residents. To date, the City has spent more than $700 million to fight COVID-19.
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[Timothy Antoine\Eastern Caribbean Central Bank\COVID-19]
Antoine: “As Caribbean brothers and sisters, we must stand with each other, in firm solidarity, as we fight this common enemy – COVID-19.”
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[Immigration\”Public Charge Rule”]
Make The Road Litigation team: “As long as the Public Charge Rule remains in effect, immigrants and their families, including those who are U.S. citizens, will be deterred from seeking testing or treatment for COVID-19.”
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[COVID-19\Africa]
Mr. Thiam is a banker and businessman. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse and also served as Chief Financial Officer and CEO of Prudential.
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[Easter\COVID-19]
Williams: “In the face of this pandemic- while many traditional celebrations cannot be held- we can carry those values as we observe the holiday in our homes.”
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[Association of American Medical Colleges\COVID-19]
Dr. David Acosta: “Local data – from Connecticut to Michigan, from New York to Louisiana – are telling the same story: people of color, particularly Black Americans, are more likely to get sick and die from the novel coronavirus.”
Photo: YouTube
[AFT and UFT\COBRA]
Weingarten said: “We are seeing a terrible loss of life as well as loss of employment as a result of this pandemic.”
Mulgrew said: “Tens of thousands of New Yorkers are now out of work.”
Photo: Twitter
[CPJ\Press Freedom]
According to CPJ’s most recent annual survey conducted on December 1, 2019, there were at least 73 journalists in prisons in Africa…For journalists jailed in countries affected by the virus, freedom is now a matter of life and death.
Photo: Twitter
[1994 Rwanda Genocide]
“Between April and July 1994, the world stood still in awe as more than a million people were killed in a space of one hundred days in Rwanda…This commemoration should remind us of a past never to be repeated.”
Photo: African Union
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