Sentences with phrase «families left city»

De Blasio's administration is requesting a change in the budgetary language that prevents New York City from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city - run shelters.

Many white families left cities to move to the suburbs — white flight» — though there is some debate about how much of this was caused by Brown and the racial integration of schools.

Our city's educators and education advocates have worked tirelessly in years past to address the issues faced by our urban communities, yet teacher burn - out persists, and public schools stand vacant as teachers and families leave our city in droves.

Suburban school districts are growing as Jackson families leave the city, in part because of concern about the underfunded schools, she added.

The author, Heather Cameron always dreamed of moving to a farm, then one day she and her family left the city and made their farm dreams come true!

Not exact matches

Yet even as states and cities across the country pass laws guaranteeing paid sick days and paid family and medical leave, too many families still do not have access to these critical workplace standards.

They left behind one set of family and community institutions — like quilting bees and barn raisings — for the city.

Everything was taken from Faiez and his family at an IS checkpoint as they left the city.

Faiez's family left their home in Mosul when extremist Islamic group IS took over the city, giving Christians and other minorities a chilling ultimatum: convert, leave, or die by the sword.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Leonardo and his family, Kaqchikel Mayas, had left their village 30 years ago to seek their fortune in the city.

We have left family to study theology in the city whose architecture is the most glorious of catechisms.

Your European adventure sounds wonderful, but better to leave while you still want to stay... one needs roots as well as wanderlust, something I've had trouble coming to grips with myself, with my family's story in one tiny city and mine flung across several continents.

I'm excited to get back to the city to see Mikey and all of my friends, but it's difficult leaving my family, especially these days when I want so badly to be there for my sister.

Bellerin recently revealed that his family had left him in London to return to Spain, citing family reasons for their departure, before talking up his love for his former city.

Her family was back in Atlanta, the city that she and Harold — she called her husband Harold and her son Warren — had left years earlier for the more promising environment of California.

Two weeks ago I suggested that childfree people support the family leave recently passed by San Francisco and New York City.

Our members have helped move forward paid Family Leave policies in cities, counties and states across the nation, have helped pass affordable childcare policies in red and blue states alike, have also helped advance sick day policies in over a dozen cities and states across the nation, as well.

In an age where some families are jetting around the world while others stick to staycations, some kids never have the chance to leave their own city or state.

These rural workplaces provide a welcome alternative to these women moving to a large city to work in the garment industry leaving their families behind and making themselves vulnerable to injust and sometimes violent situations.

Cuomo has bristled at implications his progressive bona fides don't stack up and his supporters have pointed to a raft of accomplishments during his time as governor, including the passage of a minimum wage hike that eventually grows to $ 15 in the coming years in the New York City area, paid family leave, a sweeping gun control law, the legalization of same - sex marriage and regulations that bolster the rights of transgender New Yorkers.

But Klein noted his conference has been under similar pressures before to achieve victories backed by Democratic constituencies, most recently the increase in the minimum wage to be phased in to $ 15 in parts of New York City and the surrounding area, as well as 12 weeks of paid family leave.

Business owners say that a session that saw the minimum wage increase, to eventually $ 15 an hour in New York City and $ 12.50 upstate, along with a phased - in partial paid family leave, will be costly to smaller employers who operate on the edge in a shaky economy.

Pols including U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, state Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Councilmembers Brad Lander and Stephen Levin, Assemblymember Walter Mosley and former Assemblymember Joan Millman praised Simon for tackling tough issues like gun control, public education, civil and disability rights, ethics in government, minimum wage, and paid family leave.

Business owners say that a session that saw the minimum wage increase to eventually $ 15 in New York City and $ 12.50 upstate, along with a phased - in partially paid family leave, will be costly to smaller employers who operate on the edge in a shaky economy.

Leaving aside the fact that the family income was likely close to $ 300,000 at the time of Chiara's crisis, Public Advocate de Blasio, as a city employee, had access to excellent health insurance that covers unlimited inpatient rehab at nominal cost... and that's with the HMO option.

Known for its left - leaning politics and formidable voter turnout operation, the Working Families Party, founded by a coalition of labor unions and liberal organizations, enjoyed a banner year in the 2009 New York City elections.

There are also questions around whether Cuomo will include a proposal and dedicated funding for paid family leave, something that de Blasio recently moved on for some city employees and called on the state to pass for all workers.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing to shift payment responsibility to New York City for higher education and health care, is asking state legislators to adopt a congressional model limiting their outside income, will direct $ 2.6 billion to address homelessness in New York State and will push for a system of paid family leave.

NEW YORK — Extreme weather conditions can provide even more severe hardships for already strained homeless families in New York City — including being left out in the freezing cold, according to elected officials.

While there are a variety of city - specific issues at play, de Blasio has made it clear that he is supportive of Cuomo's push for both a minimum wage increase toward $ 15 per hour over the next several years and a paid family leave policy.

Cuomo, while praising the state's Marriage Equality Act, Paid Family Leave Act, the free SUNY tuition plan and the rise of the minimum wage in New York City to $ 15 as successes, he blamed the rise in anti-Semitism and «hate» crimes on President Donald Trump's administration, which is «dividing the nation, pitting rich against poor and black against white.»

A yearslong investigation into the Working Families Party, the influential left - leaning group that helped fuel the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has resulted in the indictments of two former aides to a Staten Island city councilwoman.

During former mayor Michael Bloomberg's tenure, the state cut what was known as the Advantage Program, which allowed the city to spend its Department of Homeless Services budget on rental assistance for families leaving shelters, as long as they were employed or actively seeking jobs.

Sanders, meanwhile, returned the favor, praising Cuomo's recent efforts on increasing the minimum wage in the New York City metropolitan area to $ 15 over the next several years and creating a 12 - week paid family leave program.

At the time, the exhibit matched the theme of a successful policy push for increasing the state's minimum wage to $ 15 in the New York City metro area and the approval of a paid - family leave program.

Unlike Senate Republicans, who had to accept a minimum wage increase to $ 15 in the New York City area, Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly are largely happy with the final agreement, which also includes a 12 - week paid family leave program and a boost in education aid by $ 1.5 billion.

At 10 a.m., Cuomo attends a Paid Family Leave rally, New York City Mission Society, 646 Malcolm X Blvd., Manhattan.

The mayor's office, however, maintained that the governor's regulations are redundant of existing city statutes and could leave working families scrambling for a place to care for their children.

Some of the other priorities that PPG will be urging state and local government to act on this year include fair elections in the City of Buffalo, raising the age of criminal responsibility in New York State, community policing and paid family leave.

ALBANY — At the same time Gov. Cuomo has criticized the city's handling of the homeless, a new audit set for release Tuesday knocks his administration for oversight failure that has left many homeless families and adults living in squalor.

«The Council is committed to fighting for the diverse needs of the 8.4 million people who call New York City home and I look forward to continuing to work with Governor [Andrew] Cuomo, [Senate] Majority Leader [John] Flanagan, [Assembly] Speaker [Carl] Heastie and state lawmakers to advocate for our top priorities, such as the DREAM Act, a $ 15 minimum wage and paid family leave, and to make sure that New York City gets its fair share.»

Actions — not words and feelings — are what matters, which is why this administration fought for and delivered more state funding to New York City than ever before — $ 30 billion this year — raised the minimum wage to $ 15, passed the country's strongest paid family leave policy, enacted full - day universal Pre-K without additional taxes, secured unprecedented funding to modernize the MTA, and is rebuilding LaGuardia, and reconstructing Penn Station.»

It should reject, the legislature should reject, an ill - considered proposal in the governor's budget for homeless programs,» Mr. de Blasio said, claiming it could leave 500 city families in shelters or on the street.

Rep. Peter King of Seaford, seen April 28, 2017, left, responded on Twitter to the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas where Jennifer Bryant, right, surveys the ruin inflicted on her family business in the city of Katy on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.

«She was an elegant woman,» Cuomo said following a paid family leave rally in New York City.

Together, we passed Paid Family Leave, a $ 15 minimum wage and delivered free universal pre-k to every child in the city.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, First Lady Chirlane McCray and their son, Dante, left the city yesterday for «family engagements» in Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

In its affordable housing plan, the city has allocated 750 apartments for families leaving homeless shelters.

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