Search Results for: Know Your Rights

...childcare to immigrant families who were previously excluded from eligibility. However, while many vending families are eager to find childcare, many either don’t know about the program or are unable...

...lives with an incurable chronic illness, my healthcare impacts every decision I make. I consider myself lucky to have health insurance because I know this struggle would be virtually impossible...

...of their schools and neighborhoods, and developing the foundational knowledge and skills to support them in their self-empowerment, community leadership and advocacy. We will continue to build this program and...

...health care rights, including language access and financial assistance. When New Yorkers know their rights, they are better able to get the help they need. Immigrants are especially vulnerable to...

...we know all too well how important it is to have proper resources, adequate interpretation and translation and most of all on the ground outreach that reflects the ability to...

...colleagues and make it clear that this Council knows immigrant rights are human rights.” “Two years into this pandemic, a quarter-million immigrant New Yorkers are still uninsured despite being disproportionately...

...are welcomed,” said Rama Issa-Ibrahim, Executive Director of the Arab American Association of New York. “In 1857, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that African Americans ‘had no rights which the...

...the Census in favor of a white supremacist agenda. We know that the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census is an attempt to deprive immigrant-rich states of...

...if this threat actually does comes to New York, we will once again rise up and fight back. For now, we remind our immigrant neighbors to know their rights and...

...coverage now,” “New Yorkers cannot wait another year, for another study, just to confirm what we already know: health insurance dramatically alleviates morbidity and mortality and improves the health care...