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Today’s jobs report shows an economy that’s still moving in the right direction but way too slowly, which is why Washington’s continuing obsession with the federal budget deficit is insane. Jobs and growth must come first.
The cost of borrowing is so low — the yield on the ten-year Treasury is…
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By JULIE TURKEWITZ and JULIET LINDERMAN
Since 2008, a growing number of transgender Latinas have gathered in Queens every Friday night, discussing challenges unfamiliar to many New Yorkers: Where do I buy female hormones without a prescription? How do I avoid the police when reporting a drug overdose? Who can help me find a lawyer familiar with asylum petitions?
Conducted in Spanish, the sessions are aimed at those who have emigrated, most illegally, from Latin American countries where violence toward gay and transgender people is common. The group provides participants with concrete knowledge and life skills. But above all, it is a refuge that helps build self-esteem and unites a community.
Victor J. Blue for The New York TimesCecilia Gentili, left, who leads a support group for transgender Latina women in Queens. Here she visits with friends at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center before a memorial for transgender people who have died.
[It’s important to understand how insane this is, and the extent to which the Speaker of the House is, once again, holding the economic health of the nation hostage.]
Tomorrow New York Communities for Change and allies are launching the public face of their campaign to organize fast food workers into a union and force the boss to give workers $15/hour.
We will be live-catting
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