Archive for 'Social Issues'
What Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act means for taxes on Social Security
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Posted: July 11th, 2025 under Congressional News, National News, Political News, Social Issues.
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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Statement on Big Beautiful Bill
”I am deeply concerned with how the Big Beautiful Bill will impact the North Country. Without a doubt, our medical system will suffer under the cuts in this bill. Our rural hospitals, nursing homes, community health centers, disability support services, and all other local healthcare providers will bear the brunt of the cuts. Even those […]
Posted: July 7th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, General News, Heathcare News, Northern NY News, Opinion, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues, State Legislator News.
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‘We need a prayer’: As executive order ends, hundreds of Vermonters exit motels
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Posted: July 3rd, 2025 under Peru/Regional History, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Social Security benefits face big cuts in 2033, unless Congress acts
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Posted: June 19th, 2025 under Congressional News, Corruption in Gov't., National History, National News, Political News, Social Issues.
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Summer Youth Employment Program Provides Valuable Work Experience for Young People
May 27, 2025 Governor Hochul News Release Statewide Investment Will Support the Employment of 21,000 Youth from Low-Income Families Across the State this Summer Governor Kathy Hochul today announced $56.5 million to help approximately 21,000 young people from low-income households enter the job market this summer through New York State’s Summer Youth Employment program. As […]
Posted: May 30th, 2025 under Political News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News, Youth News.
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Hochul apologizes for ‘ethnic cleansing’ at Thomas Indian School
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Posted: May 22nd, 2025 under National History, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Social Issues, State Government News.
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Tensions mount in Burlington business community as council orders meal program relocation
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Posted: May 21st, 2025 under Business News, Community Events, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Interfaith Food Shelf saw 11% growing community need last year
Interfaith provided 11 to 12 tons of food monthly last year, their 60th Click here for the Sun Community News Story
Posted: May 16th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, City News, Community Events, General News, Northern NY News, Social Issues.
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Black and Hispanic drivers continue to be stopped disproportionately across Vermont, traffic stops study finds
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Posted: May 9th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Social Security office finds ‘dead’ people in Upstate NY who aren’t really dead
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Posted: May 9th, 2025 under Corruption in Gov't., National News, Political News, Social Issues.
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New York Will Boost Unemployment Benefits, Labor and Businesses Celebrate
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Posted: May 9th, 2025 under Business News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues, State Government News.
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An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country
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Posted: April 14th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Nearly Decade After Brutal Beating by Auburn Correctional Prison Guards, Man Gets $1.2 Million Settlement
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Posted: April 9th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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Phil Scott extends motel stays for families and ‘medically vulnerable’ individuals
The extension, which will apply to roughly 400 households, comes after the governor struck down legislation that would have granted a reprieve for all participants. Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: March 29th, 2025 under Heathcare News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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As standoff over motel program continues, residents grapple with uncertainty
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Posted: March 27th, 2025 under Heathcare News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues, State Government News, State Legislator News.
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Sixty-three children and teens reported as runaways were found safe, due to the efforts of a first-of-its-kind operation in the Capital Region.
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Posted: March 14th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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EPA to review landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health
“We are driving a dagger through the heart of the climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Click here for the CBS News story
Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Environmental News, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Common Sense Media supports Hochul’s ‘bell-to-bell’ smartphone restraints
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Posted: March 12th, 2025 under Education News, Political News, Social Issues, State Government News, Statewide News.
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Nearly 200 kids under 6 in NY went to ERs after exposure to cannabis last year
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Posted: March 5th, 2025 under Heathcare News, Law Enforcement News, Social Issues, Statewide News.
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Adirondack homeowners face triple threat: high cost of repairs, contractor shortage, risk of flood damage
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Posted: March 1st, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Business News, Environmental News, Northern NY News, Social Issues.
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Afghans helping Afghans: Case workers in Burlington outline their struggle to respond to federal funding freeze
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Posted: February 24th, 2025 under General News, National History, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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Missing transgender man was tortured for over a month and killed in Finger Lakes
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Posted: February 17th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Social Issues, Upstate New York.
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Free online childcare provider trainings target nutrition, physical activity
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Posted: February 14th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, General News, Heathcare News, Northern NY News, Social Issues.
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Suspension of federal funding hits Vermont refugee resettlement agencies and dozens of new arrivals
“Our 40-year history has shown the remarkable compassion of Americans towards those who stood alongside US troops, escaped violent conflicts, and those seeking hope and freedom,” Joe Wiah, executive director of the council Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: January 28th, 2025 under Border News, National News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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‘I had to shut down’: Student who endured persistent racism at Woodstock school wins settlement against district, supervisory union
“He was called the N-word. His head was compared to a chimpanzee’s skull. A banana was waved at him with comments about him looking like he needed it.” Click here for the VTDigger story
Posted: January 27th, 2025 under Education News, Regional NY-VT News, Social Issues.
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