Medicaid provides comprehensive, affordable health care coverage to nearly 50 percent of our State’s children – over two million of the youngest New Yorkers.
The undersigned New York State-based child advocacy organizations urge our US Senators and Members of the House of Representatives to stand firmly with children and families during negotiations on the next federal stimulus package.
The “Civil Gideon” argument advocates for immigrants, along with other indigent civil defendants, to have a categorical right to legal counsel by extending the Gideon v. Wainwright precedent to civil proceedings.
Student Safety Act data from the fourth quarter of 2019 shows a 14% decrease in total NYPD interventions in City schools compared to the same period in 2018: from 3,578 interventions to 3,654.
