New Yorkers rally against care cuts

bmj;381/may31_5/p1222/FAF1faMichael M Santiago/GettyYoung people participated in a Care Not Criminalization rally at Foley Square, New York City, last week to protest against the expected budget of the city’s mayor.Eric Adams’s budget plan could result in a $2.5bn (£2bn; €2.3bn) loss of funding for libraries, education, and social service programmes.Adams has called for the cuts to be made across city agencies to help with the cost of billions of dollars that he says the city will need to care for the growing number of migrant arrivals. The protesters were demanding that he invest in the care of the city’s population, rather than spending excessively on policing and criminalisation.
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