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Steven Yoder
The Imprint
State Assemblwoman Michaelle Solages, D-Elmont, called it âjust unbelievable and unfair â those are the words I m going to say in public â but it s just disheartening that we re not really investing in these young people in a proper way.â
The $900 billion federal coronavirus aid package passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump late last month includes no dedicated money for state or local governments, creating dire prospects of gutted social service programs and laid-off public servants. In New York, that frightful fiscal reality will be confronted by a new super-majority of Democrats in both houses of the Legislature â inspiring youth justice advocates who say the climate in Albany may now be more amenable to shutting down costly youth prisons.