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School stabbing renews calls for more safety agents

After a school safety agent and a teacher were stabbed while defending a guidance counselor at a Bronx elementary school, unions representing teachers and principals called on the city to restore …

City jails overrun by ‘dysfunction,’ report notes

In a damning indictment of the Department of Correction’s new leadership team, the federal monitor overseeing reforms in city jails found that DOC efforts to thwart violence inside lockups has …

Nonprofit workers rally for better pay

Like so many nonprofit human-services employees, Johanna Ortiz, a pediatric community health worker, often struggles to make ends meet. “There is no greater satisfaction than the gratitude the …

City pension funds vote to divest of Russian assets

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reverberated across global financial systems, and also here. Trustees of the $88 billion municipal employees fund as well as those governing the funds of the …

NYPD union given voice in protest suits

A Federal appeals court has granted the Police Benevolent Association the right to intervene in lawsuits stemming from the NYPD’s handling of street protests following the May 2020 death of …

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