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The legislative package, passed by the Council in August, addresses racial disparities, most severely affecting Black women and birthing people

City Hall, NY – Speaker Adrienne E. Adams and the New York City Council celebrated the maternal health legislative package, which addresses significant disparities in maternal health, mortality, and morbidity for the first time in the City’s history, being signed into law today.

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City Hall, NY – During a special Stated Meeting, the New York City Council unanimously passed Resolution 283-A, sponsored by Speaker Adrienne Adams, calling on the Mayor and the Chancellor of the Department of Education (DOE) to immediately reverse the DOE’s reductions to school budgets. The resolution calls on the DOE to restore $469 million that it removed from school budgets.

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