Almost exactly 11 years ago, at the White House signing ceremony for the Affordable Care Act, as then-Vice President Joe Biden was introducing President Obama, he famously whispered “This is a big f deal!” a comment caught on microphone as Obama stepped to the podium.
Maya Wiley Is Running For Mayor of NYC, and Her Family-Focused Policies Are Unparalleled
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New York City mayor hopeful Maya Wiley has an impressive résumé. A lawyer, racial-justice activist, and former professor at The New School, she has served as counsel to Bill de Blasio and worked as a contributor for NBC News and MSNBC. Determined to become the city s first woman mayor, the 57-year-old mother of two has made helping American families the cornerstone of her platform through her universal community care model.
Comprehensive in nature, Wiley s universal community care plan was crafted as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has disproportionately affected mothers, particularly women of color. We have to confront [the fact] that women have been hit harder, Wiley told POPSUGAR. If we want to recover our economy, we have to recognize that while women have grown to well over 40 percent of the workforce, they have lost a decade [of progress due to the pandemic]. W
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It’s no secret that construction work has long been a male-dominated industry. Erik Antokal is striving to change that.
“You have 50% of the population that has essentially been historically excluded from that incredible opportunity – what an untapped resource,” Antokal says.
After graduating from Tufts University in 2012, Antokal completed a fellowship with the Coro New York Leadership Center, where he was able to work with the United Federation of Teachers and 32BJ SEIU, the politically powerful property service workers union. Prior to joining Nontraditional Employment for Women, Antokal also worked for the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where he helped coordinate the city’s business improvement districts.
Idli, dosas could get pricier as Myanmar unrest may affect urad imports
March 07, 2021
Urad prices have gone up sharply over the past two months - P V SIVAKUMAR×
The pulses supply chain in Myanmar, the second-largest producer of pulses after India, had already been disrupted due to the political unrest
Import of urad (black gram or black matpe) into the country could be affected this year following the political unrest in Myanmar.
The imports of urad, used in food items such as idli, dosa and pappad, are crucial to bridge the demand-supply gap of the pulses in the country. Thus, it could result in higher prices for the food items that are regular in the country, particularly in south India.
Posted By Iridian Casarez on Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 6:42 AM Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved and signed the Golden State Stimulus package, which includes a one-time payment of $600 or $1,200 to low-income residents, including undocumented taxpayers. The one-time stimulus checks are slated to go to an estimated 5.7 million low-income residents making less than $30,000 a year. According to a release from the governor’s office, the stimulus checks will be provided to households “receiving the California Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for 2020” and to immigrants and undocumented “taxpayers with Individual Tax Identification Numbers (ITINs) who were precluded from receiving the $1,200 per person federal payments issued last spring and the more recent $600 federal payments.”