Archive for June 2025

In 2021, according to the most recent public health data, 1,660 New Yorkers died by suicide, and an estimated 41,500 New Yorkers attempted it. New Yorkers with serious mental illness (SMI) are receiving less treatment, according to a report released last year by the City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, with 48 percent reporting that they had not received medication or therapy in the prior year. That increases to 70 percent when you factor in those without insurance.

Confirming the U-turn, Rachel Reeves said the Government had “listened to people’s concerns” about the decision to limit the payment to the poorest pensioners last winter, and was now able to widen eligibility because Labour had restored “stability” to the economy.

Bil Pob Plentyn calls on parties to commit to placing a statutory duty on public bodies to actively listen to, protect, and support every child in Wales – regardless of their background or circumstances. This landmark legislative proposal calls on parties to guarantee that the rights of children are no longer treated as optional, but as fundamental.

Susan Brownmiller in 1988. Her Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape was ranked by the New York Public Library as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century.

“We’ve heard this song and dance before — ‘Oh we’re not cutting Medicaid, just putting work requirements on there’ — but those work requirements in effect are putting cuts on Medicaid,” Gandy said.

American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media obtained via public records requests. Massive Blue, the New York-based company that is selling police departments this technology, calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.”

“As social workers, we’re providing information — that’s what the library does,” says Kat Layton. “We always try to think outside the box when we’re connecting folks with resources, and we try to build new relationships with community partners while looking for solutions.”