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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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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Pop Quiz: Who are they?

Why is it we know more about the killer, and less about the victim? Is it because of media satisfying public interest or that’s how our society is? How about the following two people? Who is the victim and who is the aggressor? Candidate for City Council in 2023

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Medicare Annual Enrollment: $59×12 error!

Medicare.gov website states no premium for the UHC NY-0005 plan. When United Healthcare confirmed the change in enrollment, it has a $59 per month monthly premium. An error that could cost me $708 per year! Is Medicare.gov at fault? Solution? Enroll directly at insurance carrier’s website. Candidate for City Council in 2023

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History could be interpreted differently over time: Lion of Venice

Venice’s winged lion was made in China! Researchers have now showed that it was most likely originally a tomb guardian cast during the Tang dynasty (618-907) using bronze from the lower Yangtze River basin in southeast China. But the question of just how the 2.8-tonne statue made its way across continents to the top of a…

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