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New York state rules require that these workers — who comprise between 8-10% of the 300,000 home care aides in the city — get regular breaks to eat and sleep. But many have filed wage-theft complaints alleging that they’ve worked days in a row with no rest.
“After doing this for five to six years, my body collapsed,” one worker told THE CITY.
The state Department of Labor dropped an investigation into the matter years ago, citing union contract clauses. But in January, a state judge quietly revived home care workers’ challenge to that decision.
And last month, Councilmember Christopher Marte proposed a bill capping their shifts to 12 hours per day. But his solution doesn’t have the backing of The Legal Aid Society, which is representing the workers in their case against the state.
About half of all detainees who are sent by Rikers officials to one of the city’s public hospitals during a psychiatric crisis are sent back within hours. That cycle was a subject of a recent Board of Correction hearing, after which one jail official asked, “How’s that possible?”
The majority of 911 calls routed to the NYPD are non-criminal in nature, according to dispatchers’ own logs, a study released today by the Vera Institute finds. The reform group is calling for non-police responses, but the NYPD pushed back forcefully on their analysis.
Reporter’s Notebook
Spending Woes
The city’s budget deficit could be much larger over the next two years, Comptroller Mark Levine will outline today at a City Council hearing.
Levine’s team estimates the city’s gap is actually $797 million more for this fiscal year and could rise to $6.5 billion by next fiscal year. That's nearly $2 billion more than Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s most recent $5.4 billion estimate.
The city is spending more than it’s bringing in, he said, despite a healthy economic forecast across the city. The most rapidly increasing expenses are from rental assistance programs, primarily CityFHEPS, which has gone up 4% per month and is expected to cost $2.6 billion next year.
Other spiking cost are due process education claims, known as Carter cases, where the city pays private tuition for students whose needs are not met in public schools. Spending on those cases has tripled over the last seven years, to an estimated $1.5 billion.
Levine did praise Mamdani’s budget for being more transparent than those during Mayor Eric Adams’s administration — and agreed that under-budgeting over the previous four years are partly to blame for the current deficit.
The mayor shared the city’s money woes with his preliminary budget, saying if Gov. Kathy Hochul didn’t increase taxes on the wealthiest people and corporations, he’d be forced to hike property taxes by 9.5%.
Wednesday, March 11: Celebrate Elton John and Lady Gaga’s shared birthday month with a piano bar sing-along at The Loser's Lounge. Free, but tip the performers, at 8:00 p.m.
THE KICKER: The warm weather has brought more than New Yorkers out: dolphins were spotted in the East River next to Randall’s Island Park earlier this week.
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