In 2019, Catholic Charities of New York received over 15,500 calls to their Helpline. In 2020, that number increased to over 27,000 calls. That is a 74% increase in the volume of calls in just one year and this is no surprise. The impact of Covid-19 in New York...
New Yorkers with medical issues faced additional burdens in lockdown, balancing protecting their health and staying afloat. Robert Sanchez has spent much of his life waiting for the other shoe to drop. At age 19, he began serving 15 years in prison for drug possession, and afterward, he dedicated himself...
Imagine all the people who landed in foster care — John Lennon. Ella Fitzgerald. Eddie Murphy. Marilyn Monroe. Steve Jobs. Ice T. Cher. Nelson Mandela. Eleanor Roosevelt. J.R.R.R. Tolkien. And about 8,000 children in New York City right now. They all ended up living with foster families—or with relatives, in...
