Parents and children bond at climate march
“This is the most pressing issue of our time and it’s gonna affect our kids more than it affects us, so we thought we absolutely had to be here, “said Marisa Wolfson, an Upper West Side, mom of two.
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As parents overdose, Pasco County schools becomes overburdened
Pasco County, Florida, is a primarily white middle-class community perfectly nestled between the Gulf of Mexico’s sunny beaches and Disney World. But despite being in the sunniest state and close to the happiest place on earth, it is clouded by addiction. Parents are getting high, children are being neglected and teachers are desperately seeking help as the opioid crisis […]
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The Opioid Epidemic: The Students of Pasco County
The number of opiod related deaths in Pasco County, Florida, is 30 percent higher than the state average.
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City school bus strike causes hardship for parents
At 5:30 a.m. every morning, Zsuzsa Schuster wakes up her six-year-old son for school. She lives in Jackson Heights, but due to overcrowding, has her son enrolled at a school in Long Island City, Queens.Schuster, 34, then drives to work on 23rd Street and Madison in Lower Manhattan. Her son, who suffers from asthma, would normally take a bus near […]
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NYC Cold: Parents struggle with strollers in the snow
Pushing bundled up babies through snow, slush and ice is not easy.
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The next #featurefriday is first semester student Amanda Pérez Pintado, a print journalist who has come to NYC from Puerto Rico. She spent the last year moving up from an intern to a full-time reporter at Puerto Rico’s largest newspaper @elnuevodia where she covered politics, business, science and local events. She is interested in covering social justice issues and one of her stories about the gentrification of San Juan, PR made it to the front page of her hometown newspaper. • “As a journalist, I’m interested in telling people’s stories. Journalism needs diverse voices to get stories on underrepresented communities out there.” • #featurefriday #newspaper #socialjustice #elnuevodia @nyu_journalism -
Our #mondaymotivation is first semester student Sydney Fishman. She has brought her audio reporting skills to NYC from California, where she got her start interning at radio stations in Santa Cruz and the Bay Area. While most of her work has focused on immigration, including a story she produced about undocumented works at strawberry farms being exploited by companies, she also enjoys reporting on music, movies and local artists. Her work can be found online at SoundCloud.com/sydthekyd. • “It's important to give a voice to the voiceless. In journalism it's important to find out stories from people you usually wouldn't hear from. I think it's important to let people know that they are being listened to and their voice matters.”
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