Newsroom Navigation From left: Veronica Leal, Maria Isabel Sierra Mosso and Santa Arias pose in front of a sign on Thompson Street in Manhattan during a hunger strike for excluded workers.
New Jersey Approves Fund for Undocumented Immigrants and Excluded Workers
Undocumented immigrants and excluded workers will receive $40 million of the state’s $275 million economic relief package.
Published on May 10, 2021 7:16AM EDT
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday that undocumented immigrants and excluded workers will receive $40 million of the state’s $275 million economic relief package. The move comes after workers excluded from past state and federal relief protested and embarked on hunger strikes. New Jersey residents who were excluded, regardless of immigration status or whether they filed taxes, are able to claim a one-time payment of $1,000, with a household maximum of $2,000. People with incomes over about $55,000 won’t be eligible. Advocates said this was
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PATERSON Abdus Miah was a middle school teacher with a degree in education when he lived in Bangladesh, but his credentials didn’t carry over when he came to the United States.
So Miah took whatever work he could get and has spent more than 20 years in fast-food restaurant jobs in the Paterson area.
“I have to live,” he said. “I have to survive.”
Through all those years standing behind greasy counters, Miah maintained his belief in the value of education, and he passed that faith on to his children.
So it was especially fitting that Miah was working his regular Tuesday night shift at a Dunkin’ Donuts cash register last month when his 18-year-old daughter, Iffat Aniqa, called with some big news: She had been accepted to Yale University.
April 7, 2021 at 1:07 PM
PATERSON, NJ – Another Paterson high school student is heading to the Ivy League, Superintendent Eileen Shafer announced Wednesday.
Iffat Aniqa, a senior in the School of Education and Training (SET) at the John F. Kennedy Educational Complex, has been accepted at Yale University and will begin studying at theNew Haven, Connecticut university in the fall.
“Iffat worked hard to achieve this great opportunity, and she had the support of her parents who have worked incredibly hard to provide for her and her brother and sister,” Shafer said in offer her congratulations to the student. “I congratulate them and I want to thank Iffat’s teachers and administrators who worked to draw out the best of her abilities. We all look forward to Iffat’s success at Yale.”