Governor Cuomo last week called on the Federal Government to issue “hazard pay” to hospital workers, police officers, firefighters and others, arguing that they have been the nation’s lifeblood during the coronavirus pandemic.
He said that while a large portion of the employed population has been able to work from home, those “front-line workers,” many of them black and Latino, have been risking their health to provide necessary services, protection and products, and should be justly compensated.
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