Gov. Andrew “I Will Not Resign” Cuomo Defiant After Damning Report
“Governor Cuomo sexually harassed current and former state employees in violation of both federal and state laws,” said NY AG Letitia James.
2020 was a terrible year for almost everyone.
Frontline healthcare workers and other essential employees were big losers in the crisis. They had to do all the work they usually do, plus more, in a pandemic, sans all the sanity-preserving social outlets normally available.
Children were also big losers in 2020. Just how much they lost, we don’t yet know. The data is only just now trickling in. But it isn’t good. It is safe to say at this point that online instruction did not provide kids with the same level of education they previously received in person, leaving students far behind in math, science and reading comprehension
For at-risk high schoolers who were approaching graduation, but in danger of dropping out during that crucial stage, COVID-19 was a breaking point. They aren’t re-enrolling. Instead, they have fallen through the cracks of the public education system and we aren’t getting them back.
The working class were big losers in 2020. The wage gains, historically low unemployment, and the first real increases in family income in over a decade, circa 2019, are all things of the past…