Editorial credit: hamdi bendali / Shutterstock.com By Julia Tong | February 15, 2024 | Ethnic Media Services It is 2024, and America has collapsed. A dysfunctional, authoritarian government is unable to reign in rampant unemployment and poverty, skyrocketing drug abuse, and crime. The earth’s temperature continues to climb, while desperate people scramble for food, water, […]
By Gwynne Hogan Rachel Holliday Smith | February 13, 2024 The January brawl between NYPD officers and migrants in Times Square that went viral has sparked a national firestorm over long-standing sanctuary city policies that restrict cooperation between federal authorities and local law enforcement. Republicans seized on the attack to argue that sanctuary laws should be changed. […]
WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. The USCIS workforce has worked tirelessly over the past year to uphold America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility by reducing backlogs, improving customer experience, addressing […]
Editorial credit: Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com By Emma Burleigh and Ruth Umoh | MSN, originally featured on Fortune.com Mark Cuban doubled down on his defense of DEI as a business strategy earlier this week and took some of his fellow billionaires to task on their immigration stances. In a weekend post on X, its owner […]
By Siela A. Bynoe The practitioners who deliver physical, speech, and occupational therapy services to babies and toddlers under age 3 with disabilities and developmental delays have not gotten a raise from Nassau County in nearly three decades. As homelessness continues to grow, Nassau has slashed its funding to the Department of Social Services (DSS) […]
Editorial credit: Bob Korn / Shutterstock.com By Lara Korte | MSN SACRAMENTO, California — California state lawmakers introduced a slate of reparations bills on Wednesday, including a proposal to restore property taken by “race-based” cases of eminent domain and a potentially unconstitutional measure to provide state funding for “specific groups.” The package marks a first-in-the-nation […]
Editorial credit: Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK, NY – Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Vilda Vera Mayuga today announced nearly $3 million in relief secured for workers from six major businesses to resolve violations of the City’s workplace laws: White Castle, Taco Bell, Domino’s Pizza, Amazon, Farm Country grocery store, and Public Preparatory […]
Editorial credit: Paul Froggatt / Shutterstock.com By Bethan Sexton | January 18, 2024 | MSN Lawmaker tabled bill H.R. 414 in 2023 claiming the US has a ‘moral and legal obligation’ to make restitution to the descendants of slaves Bowman believes $14 T should be distributed to black people who make up 12 percent of […]
By Selen Ozturk | January 9, 2024 | Ethnic Media Services A surging “tripledemic” of COVID-19, flu and RSV threatens to overburden an already burdened U.S. healthcare system. At a Friday, January 5 briefing co-hosted by Ethnic Media Services and Blue Shield of California Foundation, medical experts discussed tripledemic predictions; the newest JN.1 strain of […]
Editorial credit: ThePhotosite / Shutterstock.com By NPR Staff | January 2, 2024 | npr.org Harvard University President Claudine Gay announced Tuesday afternoon that she will step aside following new accusations of plagiarism. Her resignation comes just six months after she was appointed in the top job. A letter from Gay, the university’s first Black president, […]