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"I will not go quietly until I draw my last breath," attorney Paul Davis wrote in response to questions surrounding his appearance outside the Capitol during the riot.
Betty Rosa, former Regents chancellor, named permanent education commissioner
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1of5Buy PhotoBetty Rosa, right, speaks with Andrew Brown after their election to the position of Chancellor and Vice Chancellor respectively of the New York State Board of Regents on Monday morning, March 21, 2016, during a meeting held at the Education Department building in Albany, N.Y. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union)SKIP DICKSTEINShow MoreShow Less
2of5Buy PhotoBetty Rosa, center, reacts after being named Chancellor elect of the New York State Board of Regents during meeting held on Monday, March 21, 2016, at the Education Department building in Albany, N.Y. Rosa will take office on April 1st replacing Merryl H. Tisch. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union)SKIP DICKSTEINShow MoreShow Less
Share Grace Williams, like millions of other unemployed Americans over the past year, faced repeated challenges getting her benefits from a swamped unemployment program.
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By the time Grace Williams was let go from her job as a financial aid counselor last fall, she had seen the writing on the wall.
“I knew that they were going to have to downsize, and I knew that because I was the last one hired, I was going to be the first one to go,” Williams, 22, says. What she didn’t anticipate was the long, frustrating process of claiming unemployment insurance in her home state of South Carolina.