Outrageous hospital prices and health insurance premiums are taking an immense financial toll on New Yorkers and all Americans. This month’s Consumer Price Index indicates health insurance prices rose by 24.3% over the last year, contributing to historic economy-wide inflation that’s reducing workers’ real wages. Since 2000, health-care costs have increased more than twice as fast as overall prices.
Starting Friday, the program, which was launched by former Mayor Bill de Blasio and continued under Mayor Adams, began allowing parents and others to place money in the accounts of more than 65,000 kindergarten students.
Menin, who headed up the city’s census efforts under former Mayor Bill de Blasio and now represents the Upper East Side, said she was prompted to look into providing low-cost broadband after learning during the census that nearly one-third of the city’s population doesn’t have access to reliable wifi.