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…the Entire Article Below Don’t turn Super Bowl Sunday into Superspreader Sunday Published January 29, 2021 in USA Today Click Here to View the Entire Article Below Vaccine equity or…

August 25, 2020

August 25, 2020

…50 nonprofit organizations – including social justice and advocacy organizations, religious congregations, and nonprofits providing vital education, health, housing, youth development, and other social services in low-income communities of color…

Union Settlement Timeline

…East Harlem’s alternate banking system. Members pool their assets and lend money to each other at low interest rates. Today, through aggressive outreach in the community, the Credit Union has…

August 25, 2021

August 25, 2021

…hungry and housing the homeless – but that they are paid such low wages that they often cannot support their own families. A minimum wage employee working 40 hours per…

Summer 2020 Newsletter

…throughout the country. We see this in the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on low-income communities of color. We see it in the worsening economic crisis, with massive…

December 20, 2013

December 20, 2013

…that they feel can be a citywide and national model for leveling the playing field for low-income children. Using the “EatPlayGrow” curriculum developed with the National Institutes of Health and…

September 23, 2015

September 23, 2015

City Pays Preschool Workers ‘Poverty Level’ Wages DNA Info By Amy Zimmer NEW YORK CITY — Teaching assistants and aides who work at city-funded early childhood programs that serve low-income…

December 7, 2015

…said a love of children motivated them to go into education. However, teachers who have lower household incomes (less than $30,000) are less likely to say that they will stick…

September 25, 2015

September 25, 2015

…survive on their poverty-level wages for another year. For two groups of low-wage workers, however, this wait should not be necessary, because the governor and the mayor can increase their…

Let’s Fix It v.2

…our College Readiness program has provided more than 20,000 low-income students with guidance and encouragement to pursue higher education. We provide college and financial aid counseling, tutoring, SAT preparation, college…