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Internships build the road to future careers, giving students the opportunity to try out a field and develop professional skills and relationships. But many are unpaid, which can put them out of the reach of low-income or first-generation students.
Amy Liang, a senior majoring in both environmental studies and philosophy, politics and law, received the support she needed through Harpur Edge, which provided a Harpur Edge Funding Award that allowed her to participate in the Harpur Law Council Public Interest Law Internship Program last summer.
The Queens resident is the first in her family to attend college. Like many first-generation students, she initially lacked guidance and resources when navigating her college experience.
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New York Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday advanced multiple pieces of legislation tackling issues of energy and environmental justice, including a bill that would ensure energy efficiency and the benefits of the clean energy economy reach low-income communities and communities of color (S.3126A).
The state Senate also passed a bill that requires fossil-fuel peaker plants located in or near environmental justice communities to develop plans to convert to renewable energy facilities (S.4378A). Other bills tackled environmental impact statements, bioheating fuel oil, toxic air pollutants and lead standards.
Because low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately impacted by climate change, it is critical that any measures taken by the state to address the climate crisis, such as the energy efficiency measures outlined in [S.3126A], put the needs of these communities front and center, Yuwa Vosper environmental policy and advocacy coordinator at
N.Y. tax and budget deadline converge with Cuomo scandals
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo during a news conference in the New York State Capitol Building in Albany, N.Y., on May 17, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Angus Mordant.
Emboldened New York lawmakers could take on a politically weakened Gov. Andrew Cuomo to push their own budget agenda, including a more progressive tax policy targeting the ultra-wealthy.
With just four weeks until the state budget deadline, many Democratic lawmakers have been eyeing a tax package that would go further than the hike on high-income earners that Cuomo proposed in his worst-case-scenario executive budget. The Legislature also could pressure Cuomo to send additional recreational marijuana tax revenues to communities hardest-hit by anti-drug laws, said Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Queens Democrat.
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