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The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Now’s the Time To Invest More, Not Less, in New Yorkers’ Mental Health Relying on our already-strained criminal justice system for mental health care isn’t working.   Governor Andrew Cuomo has long-championed himself a progressive criminal justice reformer, committing his administration to “creating a fairer, safer, and more just system for all New Yorkers.” Yet his proposed ...

AFT Reopening schools has been one of the most contested issues of the COVID-19 era, and few have been happy with the pace – parent, teacher or student. One person who thought New York City has tackled it correctly is Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Unlike some national labor figures, Weingarten remains influential among local education unions in New York, where she headed the United Federation of Teachers from 1998 to 2009. 7. John Samuelsen International President, Transport Workers Union As international president of the Transport Workers Union, Jo...

PEF president Wayne Spence re-elected PUBLISHED 5:44 AM ET May. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:44 AM EDT May. 06, 2021 SHARE Public Employees Federation President Wayne Spence was re-elected to another three-year term, the labor group on Wednesday announced.  Spence was first elected in June 2015 to lead the state's second-largest public workers union of mostly white-collar employees in New York.  In the last year, Spence has raised the challenges facing state workers returning to the office amid the pandemic, including last year when there was ...

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(Johnson Newspaper Corp. graphic) New York localities spend nearly $300 million each year incarcerating people on technical parole violations, a recent analysis shows, as officials clash over proposed changes to the state’s parole system and parole officers plead for advocates not to misrepresent data. Lawmakers are split as progressive Democrats push before the end of session to enact parole reform, which could lead to the release of hundreds of incarcerated people in the state’s prison system with the passage of the Fair and Timely Parole Act and Elder Parole. The bill reforming elde...