CBC 3rd NYC Resident Survey

Executive Summary New York City is at a critical juncture. Affordability challenges, economic shifts, and concerns over quality of life, public services, and safety are affecting the city’s ability to attract and retain residents.  Straight From New Yorkers 2025—the Citizens Budget Commission’s (CBC’s) updated NYC Resident Survey—provides a revealing portrait of how New Yorkers feel…

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$6.85M Voter Guide Mistake!

Less than 4 weeks out, NYC Campaign Finance Board sent out 3.5 million voter information guide with errors galore! Who is responsible? Who is to pay for the error? How is the error being corrected? How is the public notified? Queens version. Candidate for City Council in 2023

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$880 Billion Medicaid Cut

We need a flowchart picture as to where the money is going. How much is actually going to the end users, and how much is for administration. Time to look into this! Candidate for City Council in 2023

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Nonprofit payment delays

Michael Sedillo replaces Johnny Celestin as head of Mayor’s Office of Nonprofit Services. Johnny Celestin was there for only six months (appointed June 2024) before being replaced. Why? Joint Taskforce to Clear the Backlog Initiative Action Memo was submitted to the Mayor on February 2022. Why did the problem persist nearly three years later? What…

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Sheltering homeless can give you a $1m salary!

And that’s for those nonprofit contractors who reported the salary honestly! $916,000 for the CEO of Acacia Network Housing; more than $700,000 across multiple years for the head of Camba; $1 million for the CEO of CORE, Jack Brown — who in 2021 was also caught stacking the org’s payroll with buddies and set up for-profit vendors…

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Unionized without a voice or vote!

The single-largest successful union petition in New York this past year is not at an Amazon warehouse or a university or hospital, but at a home care agency on the border of Bushwick and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Workers there did not vote to join their union, the Home Healthcare Workers of America. Instead, Anchor Home Healthcare…

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How many contracts have sidestepped bidding rules?

“It appears that DOE did not follow any procurement process before selecting Illustrative Mathematics” for its $34 million “NYC Solves” initiative, writes Sean Mulcahy, senior vice-president of New Jersey-based Savvas Learning Company in a Nov. 26 letter obtained by The Post. We know this is done. How common is this problem and how much extra taxpayers have…

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