CUNY Is the People’s University. Austerity Is Killing It.
The City University of New York is the crown jewel of the city’s once-robust welfare state, a vital resource for working-class New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are starving it.
Hochul announces largest school aid funding in New York history, including 100% state-funded Foundation Aid formula
Schools are big winners in Governor Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion executive budget, which includes a massive infusion in public education and a fully state-funded Foundation Aid formula program to close the learning gap across New York.
With deadline passed, Medicare amendment appears doomed: But PSC union’s ‘third way’ proposal has some traction
The city’s oft-stalled intention to switch roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers to a private Medicare provider from their traditional Medicare plan will go ahead without affording the retirees an option to keep a popular health program.
Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is showing no signs of stopping an already-delayed plan to switch 250,000 retired municipal workers from traditional Medicare to a private Medicare Advantage plan – with or without the cooperation of the City Council or the support of retirees themselves.
CUNY requires students and employees to be fully vaccinated for Spring semester, but no need for boosters
CUNY students, faculty, and staff must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend spring classes, although they do not have to show that they have got booster shots, CUNY officials recently announced.
Adams Blasted for Proposed Library Cuts
Library staff, community leaders, students, and parents on Tuesday evening rallied against proposed budget cuts for libraries citywide in front of Queens Borough Public Library’s Sunnyside branch.
Is Adams’ Medicare Advantage ploy ‘a game of chicken?’
About midway through Monday’s City Council hearing on Mayor Eric Adams’s demand that a Medicare Advantage plan become the only no-premium healthcare option for municipal retirees, Council Member Lincoln Restler (D-Greenpoint) pondered out loud, “Is this all a game of chicken?” He was referring not just to the high stakes…
Retirees want NYC to say no to Medicare Advantage
This time next week, New York City might be switching out the Medicare coverage it has traditionally given retired city workers and their dependents, and instead signing them up for coverage with a privately managed “Medicare Advantage” or Medicare Part C health insurance plan.
CUNY union testifies against potential switch to Medicare Advantage healthcare plan
City retirees and union members testified Monday against a proposed change to an administrative code that would shift the healthcare plan for roughly 250,000 retirees to Medicare Advantage, a privatized version of the current healthcare plan.
A better way for retiree health care
For more than half a century, New York City has kept a covenant with its workers: your wages will be modest — lower than those of your counterparts in the suburbs or the private sector — but as a full-time employee you will be entitled to health care coverage without…
