In upstate New York, a nursing home eviction due to a debt has indefinitely separated two women’s enduring love by 80 miles.
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Posted inPolitics
Andrew Yang’s Discomfiting Vision for New York City
It infuses Silicon Valley–style ideas and private philanthropy into an eroding safety net, and calls for no sacrifice from the wealthy.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Despite Pandemic Carnage, Predatory Nursing Home Financiers Keep Thriving
Joel Landau, who has a history of stripping nursing homes for real estate gains, now owns the largest chain in the country.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Pipeline Battle in the Heart of Brooklyn
Opposition to a power plant and natural gas pipeline, which snakes through communities of color in Brooklyn, is heating up.
Posted inWorking in America
How the Met Opera Is Squeezing Its Workers
The organization has locked out unionized stagehands while seeking across-the-board pay cuts, and outsourcing set building to non-union shops.
Posted inPolitics
The Crisis in State Governments Isn’t the Budgets, It’s the Governance
Statewide tax revenue paints a better-than-expected picture, but the political climate says something else.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump Holdovers Still Dot U.S. Attorneys Offices
The Biden administration could get more aggressive with de-Trumpification.
Posted inHousing
A Tale of Two Developments: Affordable Housing or Subsidized Ultra-Luxury?
The impending collapse of the grotesque Hudson Yards development in Manhattan could be an opportunity for affordable housing.
Posted inPolitics
Reporting in an Extraordinary Election Year
Prospect Writing Fellow Brittany Gibson’s Best of 2020
Posted inWorking in America
Firing Workers on the Boss’s Whim? New York Puts a Stop to That.
American workers have no recourse if they’re fired for no reason. NYC’s new ‘just cause’ law for fast-food workers might begin to end this absurdity.