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‘No Money to Feed My Kids:' NYers Still Waiting on Unemployment Despite New System
Many New Yorkers are confronting the reality of three or four weeks without any money, after hitting multiple snags in the inefficient and overwhelmed state unemployment application system. Some say they can’t pay rent or bills, others don’t have money to feed their kids or care for elderly relatives. The New York State Department of Labor launched a new...
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Long Term Healthcare Worker Posts Emotional Video From Inside NJ Facility
Terri Rufo hasn’t been able to hug her kids for more than a month. But her biggest worry isn’t for herself — its for the elderly patients at the New Jersey long term care facility she works at who have also been isolated from their families. “For me, I know I will see my kids again. But it’s so...
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NY Launches New Unemployment Site That Won't Require Phone Call, 200K NYers Still in Limbo
Update April 14: NBC 4 has received your questions and concerns and is waiting to hear answers back from the labor department. In the meantime, the department says if you missed your call, you don’t not need to call back. The labor department will phone you again. Note: The labor department says anyone who has already filed an application and…
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Temporary Burials Possible for COVID-19 Victims, But NYC Park Trenches Plan Denied
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner says it is not considering temporary burials in New York City parks after a top city official tweeted that trenches would likely need to be dug in the parks for the bodies of COVID-19 victims. NYC Council Health Committee chair Mark Levine initially said in series of tweets Monday morning that the city…
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New Yorkers Have Been Trying to Call for Unemployment for Weeks. Now They're Running Out of Money.
Update Apr. 9: New York is launching its new unemployment site tonight at 7 p.m. Applicants will not be required to phone the Department of Labor after applying, instead one of 1,000 call center staff will call the applicant within 72 hours. Update Apr. 8: New York has announced unemployment benefits will be extended 13 weeks, from 26 to 39…
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She's a Fashion Designer and a Thai Boxer. Now She's Fighting COVID-19 With Her Muay Thai Shorts.
A Muay Thai fighter and fashion designer is reappropriating her skills, and her boxing shorts, after seeing a desperate need for protective masks in her New York City neighborhood. Queens native Jessica Ng started sewing homemade masks after seeing how hard-hit her borough, friends and family from the COVID-19 outbreak. Queens has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in...
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Cuomo Apologizes for Crashing Unemployment Site; US, NY Claims Hit Shocking Records
New York governor Andrew Cuomo has apologized to stressed New Yorkers trying to apply for unemployment insurance on a site that has been repeatedly crashing, as the state revealed Thursday almost 450,000 initial unemployment claims have been filed in the past two weeks. The New York State Department of Labor has been “deluged” with people trying to apply for unemployment,…
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‘Humble' NYC Doctor Who Led Miracle Surgery on Conjoined Twins Dies of COVID-19 Complications
A New York doctor who dedicated his life to saving children with neurological diseases — famously performing a lifesaving surgery on the conjoined McDonald twins in 2016 — has died after contracting COVID-19. Dr. James T. Goodrich died on Monday from complications related to the virus, Montefiore Health System tweeted on Monday, saying the Bronx hospital and its associated college…
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WATCH: 71 Members of NY Symphony Conducted Remotely Amid COVID-19 Cancelation
When your Carnegie Hall concert is canceled, assemble from isolation and play online. In a show of resilience this week, 71 young musicians came together from isolation points across the country to be conducted in an online concert for the public. The New York Youth Symphony Orchestra, led by music director Michael Repper, had to cancel its concert at Carnegie…
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‘Cautious Optimism' From NY's First Experiment in COVID-19 Containment, New Rochelle
The first city in New York to impose strict restrictions on its citizens due to the spread of COVID-19 is now seeing encouraging results, its mayor says. New Rochelle, in Westchester County, was the first place in New York to see community spread of the virus, after resident Lawrence Garbuz tested positive on March 2. All eyes were on the…
