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More than 10 million people in the U.S. are out of jobs, and the hardest-hit industries are also some of the lowest paying, including retail, leisure, hospitality and tourism. (Sarah Gonzales for NPR)
By the end of last year, the door to a dream had begun to crack open for Lilli Rayne.
She’d spent about five years building her dog-walking and pet-sitting business into a profitable venture in Asheville, N.C.
“My whole life had been entirely where I wanted it to be at that point,” she recalls.
As she built her business, Rayne also left behind her history of less-than-stellar credit.
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More than 10 million people are currently out of jobs, and the hardest hit industries are also some of the lowest-paying, including retail, leisure, hospitality and tourism.
By the end of last year, the door to a dream had begun to crack open for Lilli Rayne.
She d spent about five years building her dog-walking and pet-sitting business into a profitable venture in Asheville, N.C. My whole life had been entirely where I wanted it to be at that point, she recalls.
As she built her business, Rayne also left behind her history of less-than-stellar credit. For the first time in my life, I had a credit score that I could have finally bought a home with, she says, a dream she d had her entire adult life.
Some New York police officers, even those who respond to cases of antisemitic graffiti in Orthodox swaths of Brooklyn, don’t seem to know how to spell “swastika” or “yarmulke.”
Surveillance cameras, even those in the subway, cannot always be relied upon to capture vandals who paint or carve hateful messages.
And police officers frequently either fail to inform victims about their rights to seek compensation from the state, as is required by law, or fill out the related forms inaccurately.
These are some of the things we learned combing through more than 1,800 pages of New York Police Department records on crimes referred to the Hate Crime Task Force because officers suspected anti-Jewish motivation in 2019. What we did not learn was what percentage of such crimes led to arrests and prosecution that year; whether the perpetrators or victims fell into any distinguishable demographic patterns; or how much worse antisemitic activity was across Brooklyn than it had been in pr
City’s Jail Population Rises After Bail Reform Gets A Rewrite
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After years of steady decline, the city’s jail population started going up this year. More than 4,700 people were in jail in November, compared to 3,800 at the end of April, based on the latest complete data available from the city. The majority are people who ve been accused of a crime but were not able to pay bail while waiting for their cases to play out in court.
That’s still much lower than the nearly 7,000 people in jail at the end of 2019. But it’s not what was expected in the year when New York enacted a groundbreaking new bail reform that prohibited judges from setting bail on most offenders, except those charged with violent felonies.
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