By Susan Arbetter New York State PUBLISHED 5:21 PM ET Feb. 23, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:21 PM EST Feb. 23, 2021
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Bronx Democrat and Dominican native, Assemblymember Karines Reyes, is a registered nurse who moonlights at a hospital in her district to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Reyes has seen first-hand the cost paid by frontline workers who lack protections against COVID-19. It’s the primary reason she is sponsoring the NY HERO Act (S.1034 – A.2681), a bill requiring businesses to have enforceable safety standards to prevent the spread of COVID-19. During the pandemic, we have seen profits rise at the expense of the health of our essential workers who do not receive essential protections, Reyes stated. We must pass the NY HERO Act to ensure that corporations profiting off of the labor of our communities are doin
PUBLISHED 7:09 PM ET Feb. 23, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:09 PM EST Feb. 23, 2021
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The coronavirus pandemic has had a tremendous impact on New York’s economy.
Although the state has seen job growth in certain areas, the state is still climbing out from record unemployment.
Acting Commissioner of Empire State Development Eric Gertler started off the joint legislative budget on Tuesday emphasizing how 2020 was the year no one was prepared for. Nobody could have predicted that the global economy would come to a standstill, that borders would be shut and industries would be closed to prevent the spread of a deadly pandemic, Gertler said.
When Will Schools Be Back to Normal? It May Be a While PUBLISHED 5:02 PM ET Feb. 23, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:02 PM EST Feb. 23, 2021
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Reopening schools could take longer than policymakers and elected officials would like as the COVID-19 vaccine slowly trickles out amid safety concerns raised by the teachers union.
Governor Andrew Cuomo has tied the broader reopening of the economy to ensuring kids are back in classrooms, noting education is one of the many facets in which the pandemic has laid bare social and economic inequities. You re not going to reopen the economy without parents having children in school so parents can go on with their life and work, Cuomo said last week.