“The Bronx Recovery Corps program helps you learn more about yourself and what your skill sets are, and it gives you the necessary confidence to go into a workplace and give 100 percent..."
“Pre-Covid, we would serve about a million meals a year. Now, we’re serving 2.7 million a year,” said POTS Executive Director Christina Hanson. “It’s been a massive increase..."
Lehman College students created a series of public service announcements --Shift NYC--where New Yorkers can learn how their fellow city residents coped and adapted as Covid-19 raged through the city...
“We know home care workers are leaving the sector because they are unable to live on $12.50 an hour. If New York State wants to begin taking care of aging adults and disabled people, it must take action and invest in home care — now..."
Body shops provide developers with a cheap labor pool, made of Black and Brown nonunion workers with criminal justice histories. They take advantage of scarce employment opportunities for reentry workers, and effectively force these workers into dangerous, low-wage jobs with no training...
The Bronx Free Press
