Target Employees Canned For Buying Special Edition Stanley Cups
Former Target employees are exposing how they were fired for buying special Stanley cups, unaware that they were breaking company guidelines by doing so.
Target is cracking down on employees, beating customers to the punch by buying must-have special edition Stanley cups. Several workers have exposed how they were fired for allegedly breaking policy. The workers were informed they breached a rule prohibiting them from buying products at an “unfair advantage” to shoppers.
According to Business Insider, the cups in question were part of the drink-ware company’s collaboration with Starbucks. Given the exclusive nature of obtaining the premium cups, Target accused its workers of disobeying its formal guidelines, which forbids workers from using their accessibility to obtain coveted items before customers purchase them.
Some terminated employees bought cups that were not adequately made available to customers on the sales floor or set aside by another employee. One worker in Maryland shared how she was fired after letting one be purchased before the official release.
The cups were part of a limited edition collection launched on Jan. 3, being sold exclusively through the two brand’s websites and Target. Although their original cost was $49.95, the hype surrounding the specialty items has skyrocketed their prices to over $200 on resale shops such as StockX. The company has since launched new color options to be sold at the retailer.
However, the former employees are shocked by how their entire time with the company could end abruptly all due to the cup; many were unaware of the policy in place that led to the grounds for their removal, and they even bought the items in front of management or with their expressed approval. While some offered to return the cup to keep their positions, all were denied the opportunity.
None stated that they were pursuing legal action or surveying their options. Still, they did share that their store leads noted that Target’s corporate offices led the investigations into forbidden employee purchases. Target has yet to comment on the growing matter.
Killer Mike Arrested In Los Angeles After Winning 3 Grammys
The Atlanta artist was arrested and booked for Misdemeanor Battery 243(A) PC after being arrested at the Crypto.com Arena
In what may be a first, recording artist Killer Mike was arrested right after winning three Grammy Awards at Sunday’s presentation.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Atlanta rapper was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge at the Grammy Awards after winning two awards, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, for his song “Scientists & Engineers” and one for Best Rap Album, Michael.
Breaking: Rapper Killer Mike has been taken away in handcuffs in https://t.co/aF2yiyTHol arena after winning 3 #Grammys during telecast (Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance for “Scientists & Engineers,” Best Rap Album for Michael) “Free Mike” someone shouts as he walks past. pic.twitter.com/4epfmzqMt8
Killer Mike was arrested and booked for Misdemeanor Battery 243(A) PC. If he is found guilty of the charge, he will face six months in prison or a potential fine up to $2,000, or both, according to California’s penal code.
The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the arrest on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
LAPD NEWS: Sunday Arrest Incident
On Sunday February 4th just after 4pm a male adult was detained & handcuffed for a physical altercation that occurred at the 700 block of Chick Hearn Court.
The suspect was placed under arrest and was transported to LAPD Central Division .
Killer Mike took to X to repost his wins while he was in custody.
“You cannot tell me that you get too old, you can’t tell me it’s too late, you can’t tell me dreams come true! It is a sweep, it is a sweep, it is a sweep!”
Billboard reported that the rapper appeared on The Big Tigger Morning Show early Monday morning, and when questioned by the host, he did not mention the incident and instead stated, “I won a Grammy. We party all night. Shout out to my record label. Ain’t nothing had happened, man. But we winners. That’s it.”
When Tigger doubled down and indirectly asked about his night, Killer Mike responded by saying, “Didn’t I look good? I was fresh. All black, man. Then I went and picked up all the gold. We hit a speed bump, and then we hit a speed bump and then we hit back to the party.”
Although this isn’t Killer Mike’s first Grammy Award, this is the first one he has won in over 20 years. He won one as a featured artist in 2003 when he appeared on OutKast’s “The Whole World.” They won in the category of Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. In 2018, the Atlanta rapper was also nominated for Best Rap Song for “Chase Me” by his group, Run the Jewels.
Grammys ‘Best African Music Performance’ Category Leaves Out Most Of Africa
The 2024 Grammy Awards saw the inception of the "Best African Music Performance" category. However, some digging shows how the category leaves out a large scope of the music coming out of the continent.
The 2024 Grammy Awards saw the inception of the “Best African Music Performance” category. However, some digging shows how the category leaves out a large scope of the music coming out of the continent.
Last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. announced the new category as a way “to acknowledge and appreciate a broader array of artists” compared to the previous two global Grammy categories, which typically favored African artists as the primary contenders for nominations, NPR reported.
Tyla took home the award on Sunday night for her smash hit single “Water.” While the category sought to amplify music coming out of Africa, the category only included nominees from two countries: Nigeria, which birthed the nominees Burna Boy, Davido, Ayra Starr and Asake & Olamide, and South Africa, the birthplace of Tyla, and producer Musa Keys, who is featured on Davido’s track.
The Academy reportedly shared several genres they aimed to incorporate into the category, which included chimurenga (traditional Zimbabwean thumb-piano music played on electric instruments) to Ethio-jazz (a fusion of Amharic melodies from Ethiopia with 12-note jazz scales). However, in the end, only artists who released Afrobeats and Amapiano, two popular African music styles, made the final list of nominees.
Elsewhere, the nominees only represented cities in Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy, or South Africa, the continent’s third-largest economy. This leaves out a big chunk of the continent that serves a population estimated at 1,494,993,924 with 2,000 plus living languages. However, the seven songs nominated in the category contain lyrics that are either entirely in English or largely contain English words.
“These two nations— Nigeria and South Africa— are not the only ones in African music. Africa is diverse in cultures, languages and music. I don’t even know Burna Boy. I’ve never listened to him,” Aziza Brahim, a respected “desert blues” singer from the displaced Sahrawi people in the disputed Western Sahara region says.
Artists like Burna Boy have received some of the biggest success for an African artist. He received four Grammy nominations in 2024 and won one in 2021 for the Best Global Music Album for his album, Twice As Tall. Having reached international superstardom with sold-out shows in the U.S. and U.K., other African artists wonder if his commercial success overshadows other musicians coming out of the continent.
“I feel like there’s some laziness with the Global Grammys,” Emel Mathlouthi, a Tunisian singer says.
“Once the Grammy voters identify an artist that works for them within the global category, then that person is gonna be present over and over and over and over. There’s not a huge effort to really be representative of diverse people globally.”
DoorDash Raises Delivery Fees In NYC In Response To Minimum Wage Demands
DoorDash has implemented the Regulatory Response Fee in New York City as part of its commitment to adjusting fees in response to new minimum wage regulations.
DoorDash has implemented the Regulatory Response Fee in New York City as part of its commitment to adjusting fees in response to new minimum wage regulations. Customers in the city will now bear this fee, introduced to counterbalance the higher hourly wages mandated for app-based delivery drivers in major urban centers like NYC and Seattle. A DoorDash spokesperson confirmed this move, signaling the company’s adherence to its earlier warnings about fee increases due to these regulatory changes.
The Regulatory Response Fee’s specific amount varies by location, ranging from $0.10 to $3.40. In New York City, the fee is set at $1.99, according to DoorDash. Seattle also adopted a new practice recently, highlighting the wider application of this pricing strategy in response to evolving wage rules.
In December, delivery apps, including DoorDash and Uber Eats, removed the option for NYC customers to tip before placing an order. This decision aligned with the city’s mandate that drivers receive a minimum of $17.96 per hour. Instead, these platforms opted to pay drivers $29.93 for each active hour, allowing customers to tip only after the order had been picked up or completed.
Addressing the Regulatory Response Fee in Seattle, DoorDash issued a statement on Jan. 13 emphasizing its role in covering the costs associated with the new regulations. The announcement coincided with the implementation of Seattle’s law. DoorDash also announced a reduction in suggested tip amounts on orders to balance the impact of these additional costs better.
Uber Eats has adopted a similar approach, introducing fees on orders in New York and Seattle in response to the respective cities’ legislative changes. Concurrently, Shipt, a delivery service owned by Target, opted to suspend operations in Seattle preemptively, avoiding the need to comply with the higher wage rate for independent contractors.
Since the early stages of the pandemic, workers in the gig delivery sector have reported declining pay across various apps, from Instacart to Walmart Spark. This development underscores the broader challenges workers face in the gig economy amid evolving labor regulations.
Washington State Created A Fund For Immigrants During The Pandemic That Upset Conservatives
Winfree’s comments reflect the Republican Party's general panic around immigration, and immigrants themselves.
In 2020, the State of Washington created a fund to assist immigrants who were unable to be assisted via the Federal government’s Covid-19 relief efforts. According to the Washington Covid-19 Immigrant Relief Fund website, the program was intended to address what was seen as an oversight. $400 million was used to assist more than 100,000 immigrants with Covid relief as a result of the efforts of multiple immigrant grassroots groups in Washington state.
The groups began by raising $6 million independently before getting Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to create a state fund. Following those efforts, the Governor’s office and the Department of Social and Health Services created the Immigrant Relief Fund in 2020. Those who were approved after an application process eventually received between $1,000-$3,000 as either a paper check or a prepaid card to be used for their expenses. According to officials who worked on the fund, approximately 223,000 immigrants were approved for the funds. The fund closed in 2023.
Now, as Fox Newsreports, a conservative watchdog group is criticizing the program’s existence, saying that since the funds came from the federal government, the Biden Administration essentially subsidized the fund. Paul Winfree, the president and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center, told Fox News, “The Senate is releasing a budget supplemental that includes a bipartisan deal on the border. However, the administration has been actively encouraging illegal immigration by using COVID money from the SLFRF to provide cash assistance, housing, legal aid, and other benefits to undocumented immigrants.” Winfree continued, “Until Congress claws back this money, it will continue to serve as a magnet for illegal immigration.”
Winfree’s comments reflect the Republican Party’s general panic around immigration and immigrants themselves. The report closes by making a rather strange request, tying together border security spending and emergency funds for Israel. “Congress would be wise to stop the waste and abuse in the Bidenomics Slush Fund, turn off the spending spigot subsidizing undocumented immigration, and use the rescinded budget authority to pay for its other priorities like emergency spending for Israel and real border security.”
Republicans seem to be taking their cues from Donald Trump on immigration, who faced criticism for echoing Hitler in December 2023 after saying that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” However, as The Guardian reported, the Republican Party has basically fallen in line with their leader, as not long after that, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a controversial law allowing the police to arrest anyone they suspect of being an immigrant. Meanwhile, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said in a December appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press, “I could care less what language people use as long as we get it right … I think the president has a way of talking sometimes I disagree with. But he actually delivered on the border.”
Activists like Maria Teresa Kumar, president and chief executive of Voto Latino, understand the danger in that kind of rhetoric. Kumar told The Guardian via email: “Trump may say the quiet parts loud, but he’s far from alone…Today, we see elected Republicans use rhetoric and policies for political expediency at the cost of unification. There is no doubt that we are living in a multicultural democracy – the first in history. Instead of embracing this superpower that will serve us well on the world stage, they choose division that hurts millions of fellow citizens.”
Kumar continued, “Right now, extremists have taken the issue hostage, and they are making a commonsense solution impossible. The current immigration debate is way out of step with where Americans are on the issue, and I expect this will drive Latinos and moderates to the polls in 2024.”
You're over 50 years old and haven't had to interview in years. Now what?
Originally Published Oct. 18, 2017
Your company has recently decided to reduce headcount and lay off people. Unfortunately, you are one of the employees whose names were selected, and this will be the first time in several years, maybe even decades, that you’ve been back on the job market. You’re over 50 and haven’t had an interview in years. Now what?
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This trend is happening more often than not. The best way to be prepared is to stay ready! What have you done throughout the years to keep up with trends and technology in your industry? Have you joined any professional organizations and expanded your network? Have you had your résumé professionally reviewed and updated? When did you last assess your wardrobe and update your image, including your haircut, hairstyle, makeup, and accessories? Have you considered part-time work, consulting, volunteering, or starting your own business? These simple actions can make re-entering the job market over 50 feel less intimidating and challenging.
The Advantage of Over-50 Applicants
Are companies constantly looking to hire younger and cheaper employees? Yes, and as more and more millennials, and now “Gen Zers,” emerge in the workforce, this will continue to be a preferred pool of applicants for organizations to select from. Depending on the industry, millennials may very well be the top choice for potential new hires. But there is still a sweet spot for applicants over 50. Millennials tend to change jobs quickly in their careers. On average, they may stay with a company for 18-36 months and then move on for new experiences, challenges, or promotions. Employee turnover can cost companies significant money yearly, both in hard and soft dollars (e.g., lost productivity and employee burnout).
During the interview process, experienced applicants must express their desire to find a home, stay with a company, and grow their career internally. Employer loyalty is still relevant, although less practiced now than in days of the past. This is where the over-50-year-old candidate has the advantage. Your years of experience and time spent with three or fewer employers throughout your career are truly beneficial; you must know how to sell it. The right future employer will appreciate your experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities and know you’re an asset to the company.
Colorado Players Say Recruiters Used Racial Stereotypes To Recruit Against Deion Sanders
University of Colorado players say rival coaches used racial stereotypes when trying to recruit players away from coach Deion Sanders
University of Colorado recruits and transfer players said coaches of rival schools negatively recruited against Buffaloes head coach Deion Sanders, employing racial stereotypes as they did so.
After a season that went off the rails once conference play began, the Colorado Buffaloes have put together one of the school’s best recruiting classes in recent years, with the nation’s 21st-ranked combined class and top transfer class.
Sports Illustratedreports that IMG Academy’s Jordan Seaton, now Colorado’s highest-rated offensive lineman, spoke during the media day for Under Armour’s All-America High School Football Game. According to Seaton, some coaches were negatively recruiting against Sanders, asking Seaton if he was going to Colorado to be a rapper.
Since Seaton told his story, other Colorado recruits have also gone public about the negative things coaches and recruits said about playing for the NFL Hall of Famer.
“It was crazy stereotypical terms that were pretty alarming,” UTEP transfer Justin Mayers told DNVR last week. “You know, ‘Kool-Aid’… ‘Being a rapper’… or just ‘That gang’ over there. Just all types of negative connotations that shed a bad light on the college football world.”
Linebacker Nikhil Webb Walker, who transferred from New Mexico State, said he’d been deciding between Oregon State University and Colorado but was turned off from Oregon State after a coach spoke negatively of Coach Prime.
In his first season as the Buffaloes’ head coach, Sanders started hot with wins against TCU, Nebraska, and in-state rival Colorado State as celebrities attended games. Colorado received more exposure than it had in decades. However, things turned once Colorado began conference play in the Pac-12 and the team’s inexperienced offensive and defensive lines were exposed. The Buffaloes finished the season 4-8, including 1-8 in conference play.
Colorado will begin its 2024 campaign with its Black and Gold spring game April 27, and its 2024 regular season against North Dakota State on Aug. 31.
Adidas Plans To Sell Remaining Yeezys At Cost Amid Severe Profit Decline
Adidas continues to grapple with challenges stemming from its severed partnership with Kanye in October 2022, prompted by the rapper's anti-Semitic remarks.
Adidas faces ongoing hurdles following its separation from Kanye West in October 2022 due to the rapper’s anti-Semitic remarks, according to Fortune. Initially contemplating the disposal of the remaining Yeezy sneakers, the sportswear giant pivoted to selling them and vowed to donate the proceeds to charitable causes. In August 2023, plans surfaced to contribute €110 million ($119 million) from Yeezys sales to charities impacted by West’s statements.
Despite those efforts, by November Adidas found itself considering the possibility of writing off its entire $290 million worth of Yeezy inventory as a precautionary measure.
Now, the sportswear giant has declared its intention to sell the remaining Yeezy sneakers “at least at cost” in an effort to mitigate the financial impact of the terminated partnership. CEO Bjørn Gulden said, “Our consumer, retail, and trade research has shown that we can sell this remaining inventory in 2024 for at least the cost price. This is why we have only written off inventory that was either damaged or very broken in sizes.”
The decision to sell Yeezys at cost raises questions about potential profits and the impact on charitable donations. When questioned about Adidas’ plans for the funds generated from Yeezy sales in 2024, the company declined to comment. The assumption that the sneakers would be sold at cost has been factored into the operating profit estimate for the year, according to Adidas’ press release.
In preliminary results released Wednesday, Adidas reported a 60% decline in operating profit from 2022, reaching €268 million ($290 million) in 2023. Various factors, such as foreign exchange fluctuations and subdued demand for sports apparel, have contributed to the company’s performance struggles. Despite anticipating nearly doubling profits to €500 million for the current year, Adidas’ projection falls short of the average analyst estimate of €1.3 billion.
The Yeezy crisis represents a significant challenge for Adidas, as its collaboration with Kanye West, initially beneficial for the company’s bottom line, turned tumultuous after the rapper’s controversial comments. The fallout from the collaboration has led Adidas to reassess its strategy, with CEO Gulden overseeing changes within the company.
BlackStar Projects Is Building A Legacy In Philadelphia And Film
Founded in 2012, the festival is a space for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists to showcase films that are not always welcome in the mainstream.
Written by Shantay Robinson
Philadelphia is increasingly becoming known as the home of the BlackStar Film Festival, a sacred space for filmmakers. Founded in 2012, the festival is a space for Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists to showcase films that are not always welcome in the mainstream. The title of the film festival was inspired by Marcus Garvey’s shipping line, Black Star Line, which was intended to transport goods and eventually people throughout the African diaspora, a key component of Garvey’s Back to Africa movement. BlackStar Film Festival began with a focus on Black film and filmmakers being given the opportunity for experimentation and communion, but the festival has pivoted from focusing solely on the movies of Black people to presenting the work of the world’s global majority.
Like most leaders, including filmmaker, writer, and curator Maori Karmael Holmes, who serves as the chief executive and artistic director, pivoting in troubling times is essential. Holmes grew the BlackStar Film Festival from a one-off event in August into a yearlong organization supporting non-mainstream artists’ work to a global audience.
As a graduate student at Temple University, Holmes studied documentary filmmaking. Though she majored in history, focusing on film and music, during her undergraduate studies at American University, she was always thinking about documentary films. She’d always been surrounded by the arts, performing with a theatre company while in high school in Atlanta and having a mother who works in theatre. Her trajectory was not a straight line, but, to her, it was also not circuitous. These experiences have led her to the work she’s doing right now.
After graduate school, Holmes began working with the neo-soul music duo Jazzyfatnastees on the Black Lily Film and Music Festival, becoming enmeshed in the city’s arts and culture scene. It wasn’t until she left the Philadelphia area for a stint at another graduate program that she ultimately discovered the calling that is the BlackStar Film Festival. Upon her return to Philadelphia, she started curating an art social justice film series, which indirectly turned into the BlackStar Film Festival. She had some dates reserved at a space for August, so she decided to do something for Black August and the African Diaspora.
The festival has been a revered space for filmmakers and film lovers. The now global festival recognizes filmmakers often overlooked in the mainstream and confined to genre conventions that don’t align with their visions. Part of its mission statement reads: “We prioritize visionary work that is experimental in its aesthetics, content, and form and builds on the work of elders and ancestors to imagine a new world.”
There is something sacred about the festival. Holmes says, “The number one thing I hear from attendees is that it feels like a family reunion. And I think what people mean by this is that a lot of the same people come every year, and they are casual. And they’re comfortable.”
In the BlackStar Film Festival space, artists get to revel in their artistic abilities, whereas in other spaces, they are required to talk about race. At BlackStar, “One of the things that we’re really trying to do is push for,” Holmes says, “I think oftentimes, artists of color are forced to only talk about or deal with representation. And they don’t get to talk about craft, and they don’t get to think about what it actually means to practice. And I think Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists specifically have such deep, intuitive, ancestral knowledge about making art and making a life that has not been seen.”
BlackStar Film Festival is committed to giving space for those experiments. At the festival, filmmakers are not only able to present their films but also learn about filmmaking craft and techniques from other filmmakers. But the festival is not only for filmmakers; film lovers also have the opportunity to view films by avant-garde filmmakers. Films by Ava DuVernay, Terence Nance, and Gabourey Sidibe have screened there with panels including luminaries like Spike Lee and Tarana Burke.
The festival is now a global event. The submissions for film screenings have always been accepted from artists worldwide, but with the pandemic, like most organizations, the festival had to pivot online. “It was really an amazing moment to connect globally to so many new audiences because the filmmakers have been coming from all over the globe to begin with,” Holmes says. Though the entire festival was online during the pandemic, this year, only the short film programming will be available online. And the panel discussions are usually recorded and uploaded to YouTube. But for anyone who cannot travel to Philadelphia for the festival, it still provides a glimpse at what Black, Brown, and Indigenous filmmakers are creating.
A thriving film festival is not easy to accomplish. To be sustainable, the festival has grown into a year-round organization called BlackStar Projects. The projects available to a global audience year-round are Seen, a journal of film and visual culture; Many Lumens, a podcast featuring Maori Karmeal Holmes and celebrated Black artists; William + Louise Greaves Seminar, which will take place at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California; and Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab, a year-long fellowship for filmmakers in Philadelphia.
“Our projects are hoping to amplify their work, amplify their voices,” Holmes says. “So, people are getting to talk about their craft, and they’re getting to talk about their journey, and talk about their work or have their work critiqued by their community, which doesn’t happen often.”
In 2023, BlackStar Projects hosted its first Luminary Gala honoring Black, Brown, and Indigenous luminaries in art, film, and creative culture. It’s a fundraising event but also raises awareness of those making significant contributions to culture. “The gala emerged this year as an opportunity now that we have this full-time organization and just trying to think of ways to raise money and raise visibility, and we wanted to have an opportunity to honor more than just one person.” The Luminary Awards started in 2013 with an award granted to the Howard University Film Program. It has gone on to honor RZA, Julie Dash, Ava DuVernay, and others.
The reason that BlackStar is successful is because Holmes and her team have the opportunity to be creative with experimentation. She says, “There are a lot of really creative and smart people who live here. And so, they became our staff. So, I think Philly has been nurturing in that way that there are so many amazing people.” But under Holmes’ leadership, audiences get to see that film is more than Hollywood. It’s also for other kinds of spaces and purposes aside from solely monetary reward. “To be honest, it’s the way I’m wired. I have been someone really engaged in trying to make the world a more just place for a very long time,” Holmes says.
BlackStar Projects just wrapped up its fourth year of full-time work. Moving forward, the organization plans to continue refining its programming and finding new ways to make it sustainable.
New York City To Roll Out Controversial Pilot Program For Migrants To Buy Food Using Prepaid Cards
According to NYC officials, the program is estimated to save the city $7.2 million a year.
New York City is rolling out a pilot program to give migrants prepaid debit cards to be used exclusively at bodegas, supermarkets, grocery stores, and convenience stores. As CBS News reports, the program is estimated to save the city $7.2 million annually through a partnership with Mobility Capital Finance.
Wole Coaxum, CEO of Mobility Capital Finance, released a statement detailing the program’s aims. “MoCaFi’s goal is to expand access to financial resources for individuals excluded from banking, such as asylum seekers while helping the local economy. It is an honor to be a part of the effort to welcome and support asylum seekers as they begin to plant their roots in this country.”
The program, which will be open to 500 families initially, is, according to City Hall, a “more cost-effective technology pilot program to distribute pre-paid immediate response cards to asylum seekers to purchase food and baby supplies in lieu of the city’s current system of providing non-perishable food boxes to migrant families staying in hotels.”
If the program is successful, Fox 5 NY reports, the program will be expanded to more families. However, not everyone is on board. New York City councilman Joe Borelli accused the program of giving migrants a free ride, saying, “We’re just giving this migrant population more free stuff at the expense of New York City taxpayers.”
In essence, the program is no different than an EBT card. Though the price tag is $53 million, that price tag is cheaper than the boxed meal system that the city currently employs to assist migrants, who were largely bused to the city on the order of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. The city is also currently experiencing a high demand for food, and according to Fox 5, there are reports of food being wasted at various shelters in New York, as well as questions about the quality of the food served.
Immigration advocate Power Malu is critical of the program for a different reason: He doesn’t believe it is practical for migrants to purchase food they can’t cook. “Purchasing food at the supermarket is not cheap anymore, and on top of that, they don’t have kitchens, so how are they going to purchase the food that they want?”
However, the Mayor’s office released a statement affirming that the program is a continuation of the city’s management of the crisis, “New York City has led the nation in managing this national humanitarian crisis, providing compassion and care to more than 173,000 migrants who have come through our intake system asking for shelter since the spring of 2022.” The statement continues, “A large part of our success is due to our constant work to find new ways to better serve the hundreds of individuals and families arriving every single day, as well as the longtime New Yorkers already in our care.”
