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Delays in important conversations about racial identity could make it more difficult to change children’s misperceptions about themselves or racist beliefs.
Few words are more heart-wrenching to hear from your child than “I wish I didn’t look the way I do” or “I wish I wasn’t my race.”
Those words can spring from a variety of painful experiences: A taunting on the playground for having “different” hair. The slow realization that all their favorite library books feature characters who look nothing like them. Or, later on, the microaggression of a classmate saying, “You’re pretty for a girl.”
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Harckham, Abinanti Introduce Legislation to Grant Early Retirement to Public Employees Written by Office of Senator Harckham
To help reduce the public sector workforce, New York State Senator Pete Harckham and Assemblyman Tom Abinanti announced today that they have introduced legislation that provides temporary retirement incentives for certain public employees, which will result in savings to the State and local governments.
“The coronavirus pandemic has greatly impacted the finances of the State, as well as all of our municipalities, and early retirement incentives offer bottom-line relief to their budgets,” said Harckham. “By streamlining the workforce, we will create real savings across the board, and at the same time open up job opportunities for residents in many instances.”
A few species of snakes are called “sidewinders,” and new research finds their belly skin is as odd as their way of getting around.
Most snakes get from A to B by bending their bodies into S-shapes and slithering forward headfirst. Sidewinders, however found in the deserts of North America, Africa, and the Middle East have an odder way of getting around. These snakes lead with their mid-sections instead of their heads, slinking sideways across loose sand.
Scientists took a microscopic look at the skin of sidewinders to see if it plays a role in their unique method of movement. They discovered that sidewinders’ bellies are studded with tiny pits and have few, if any, of the tiny spikes found on the bellies of other snakes.
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