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State Education Department announces City’s high school graduation rate has reached 72.7%, for the group that started in 2014 and finished in June 2018, four years later. Some students finish up in August, getting their credits in that summer. Others( last year, 2017, about 11%, are still enrolled)http://www.nysed.gov/news/2019/state-education-department-releases-2014-cohort-high-school-graduation-rates . In 2004 56.4% graduated on time, in…
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Right now, New York City’s government should be taking advantage of the Democratic majority in both houses of the New York State legislature to make progress addressing the affordable housing and homelessness crisis affecting City residents. But success requires a skillful effort, since the political challenge is daunting, despite overwhelming public concern. Why now? We…
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Here are the results of a Washington Post Poll on whether Americans would definitely vote for Trump, definitely vote against him, or consider him, in 2020: The results of this question for African-Americans: The results for Hispanics: The results for Whites:
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Seasonally adjusted employment in the United States January 2010-January 2019 US employment bottomed out after the recession in February 2010 at 129.715 million. In January 2017, the end of the Obama Presidency, employment stood at 145.695 million, a gain of 15.98 million jobs, or 196,000/month for 83 months. From that January 2017 month to the…
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The New York State Legislature, Governor Cuomo, reformers, advocates, and plenty of ordinary citizens are justly celebrating the passage and signing into law of major improvements to democracy in New York. I am too. New York State will now permit early voting beginning with the General Election in 2019, allowing voting up to nine days…
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This graph from Blog Toronto on single-fare transit rides in North America show NYC Transit slightly above average but far from the highest- many systems are nearly equal to NYC Transit in single-ride fares
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Congestion pricing is an essential step to keep the MTA’s operations and capital plans for construction, new signals and track, and new subway cars, buses, and commuter rail cars funded. But it is actually just a step. It would stabilize the current plan to borrow $12 billion for new investments and maintain operations through 2022…
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This fall, Governor Cuomo signed a campaign pledge with Long Island State Senate Democratic candidates, many of whom won their elections, to make New York City bear greater responsibility for the subway and bus system’s capital needs. The campaign pledge was the continuation of a long-standing demand by the Governor that New York City contribute…
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New York’s colossal and crumbling mass transit system is headed toward another cliff. This one is financial. The MTA’s just-adopted budget says it will have a $500 million deficit in 2020 and the deficit will rise to about $1 billion a year by 2022, even with two fare and toll hikes, in 2019 and 2021.…
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The New York State Board of Elections certified final election results for November 6th this past Friday, Dec. 14th ( about time!!). I pointed out in a recent article that the Democratic Party had a number of very close victories, especially in State Senate races, this past fall. But they came within inches in a…
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