NYC, state officials trade blame for slow-moving migrant housing program
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The Legal Aid Society on Wednesday excoriated Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration for recently supporting the city’s push to suspend the legal requirement that
The only way forward is for the responsibility to be spread around.
From the editorial, "Yes, the city has received millions of immigrants during the centuries that it has been a global destination, but never before such a volume of people legally prohibited from working and mostly without any existing ties to the city. Without a hand here, our budget balancing isn’t the only thing that will suffer. Tens of thousands of human beings will, too."
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul gathered Tuesday with the city and state comptrollers at the annual state Financial Control Board meeting to paint