such as this, 173 homicides, 18% increase you today, 564 shooting incidents, 77% increase year today, 72% of new yorkers support putting more police officers on the street. what do you think our elected officials don t understand about all that? one of the things they are not paying attention to the data because they have security themselves so as far as they are concerned nothing is really going on because they have their own public safety around 24 hours, 7 days a week and as i always say come down and do a ride along with police officers so you see what is going on. we have security details to see what is going on. data report so you can see the murders, robberies increasing exponentially, go to hospitals, visit the people, speak to the victims, they are not doing that. that is white is the number one issue for the next new york city mayoral race is crime. what do you do about crime? it is a public safety issue. jillian: thank you for joining us, really appreciate it.
but just one day after filming this ad he was dead, shot and killed in broad daylight on a busy street while handing out campaign flyers. state authorities say mmurriea was a target. they don t know by who though. at least 87 candidates or politicians have been killed. they re part of the 564 politicians or candidates overall that have been targeted by some sort of crime ranging from murder to assault to threats, the firm says. the government says it believes both numbers are far l lower, though, they don t say how they tally their numbers, but they admit it s a problem. it s a difficult time for these campaigns, says, mexico s
Federal low-income housing grant doubles in size this year
ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press
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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge speaks at a press briefing at the White House, Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Washington.Andrew Harnik/AP
WASHINGTON (AP) Thanks to a coronavirus pandemic-fueled mortgage boom, states will get nearly $700 million in federal grants from a special program for low-income housing, more than double the amount distributed last year.
It’s a boost that the Department of Housing and Urban Development says should produce a tangible leap forward in government low-income housing plans across the country.
The Housing Trust Fund, administered by the department, will disburse the money to state governments for the construction, maintenance and restoration of low-income housing. This year s allotment is $689,565,492 more than double the $322,564,267 disbursed the previous year, HUD said in a statement.
he gained only nine from 1,965 to 1,974 and then the candidates who lost the first round to the final round. elizabeth warren, she lost 316. amy klobuchar went from 1324, and 977 and she lost $347 and look at tom steyer, he went from 1,196 and 564 in the final round and that s a loss of 632 votes and he wasn t viable in a lot of places and hitting the taken 15% threshold and he s lost more votes between the two rounds than any of the other candidates. explain to the viewers who are waiting for the county delegates and the state democratic party and they have to release the numbers and we are still waiting to start getting some of them. as you know, the two rounds
people apprehended crossing the boarder illegally or without papers in february alone. adding the families and unaccompanied children make up more than 60% of these new apprehensions. i want to bring in dean margot of el paso texas, which has become ground zero in this fight over the border wall. does any of the news we ve learned this week impact your position now on the president s declaration of a national emergency at the border? well, there is a an emergency with the migrant proce process. that s all as a result of the failure to deal with immigration polecy to begin with. we re dealing with the route causes in washington, d.c., and has been for over 30 years with the failure of congress to act on both sides of the aisle. so we had, i think, released yesterday 600 in el paso, and today i think there is 564, something like that. i get the numbers every day. so you know the numbers, every day, you know this issue