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The New York State Department of Labor still needs to recover 63% of stolen wages during a five-year period analyzed by ProPublica and Documented. The problem? An understaffed agency with poor tools for recovering wages and enforcing judgments.
Feb. 27, 2023, By Carlotta Mohamed A group of tenants residing in a Jackson Heights building rallied outside of the Queens Civil Court in Jamaica on
MAYOR ADDRESSES FINANCE, WAYS & MEANS COM’S: New York City Mayor Eric Adams provided testimony on Feb. 15 to the New York State Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees, focusing on critical investments in jobs, safety, housing, and care as well as fiscal challenges facing the city. Adams told a joint legislative budget
In a message to the leaders of the International Catholic Migration Commission, Pope Francis stressed the need to help the “millions of asylum seekers, refugees and displaced persons in other parts of the world, who desperately need to be welcomed, protected and loved.
The Tablet May 24, 2021 Unaccompanied minors wait to be transported by Border Patrol in La Joya, Texas, April 7, 2021, after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States. (Photo: Catholic News Service) NEW YORK — Rebecca Scholtz has experienced firsthand how the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program can be an “incredibly life-changing process” for undocumented youth, one that culminates with a green card and the ability to make a life for themselves in the U.S. For about the last five years, however, the process hasn’t gone as smoothly. Many that have qualified for...