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New York will create a fund to help the undocumented of 2.100 million dollars

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. EFE / EPA / BRENDAN MCDERMID / Archive

New York, Apr 6 (EFE) .- The state of New York will include in its new budgets a fund of 2.100 million dollars to help undocumented workers affected by the pandemic crisis and who have not received public support, a lawsuit raised by numerous state civil groups.
This amount is included in the agreement reached by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and legislators, which was announced on Tuesday.
A brief statement from the governor’s office explains that various funds have been approved to support schools (29,500 million), to promote the green economy (29,000 million), for rent relief to people affected by the crisis (2,400 million ) or to promote the recovery of small businesses (1,000 million), among others.
The NGO Make the Road, which requested an amount of 3,500 million to help “excluded workers”, thanked the legislators who presented this initiative to the Legislative Assembly.
“Let’s give it to New Yorkers who have been called essential but have been excluded from all kinds of help,” Make The Road said.
Make The Road New York, one of the associations that has mobilized the most in favor of this fund, also expressed its satisfaction with the approval of a total aid of 4.2 billion to educational centers for the next three years “to guarantee equal resources for schools. in black, brown and low-income communities. ”
In global terms, the approved plan foresees total expenses of 212,000 million dollars, of which 111,000 will be dedicated to operational expenses and, in addition, “closes the deficit” in which the state had incurred due to the fall in income from taxes as a result of the economic crisis coupled with the covid-19 pandemic.
The new budgets also include the legalization of sports betting through mobile applications and the reform of nursing homes, embroiled in a bitter controversy during the pandemic due to the high number of deaths caused by the coronavirus.
The Federal Government has committed to send a general fund of 12.600 million dollars and an additional one for educational and health programs.
“Thanks to the state’s strong fiscal management and relentless effort to secure the federal support the pandemic demanded, we not only balanced our budget, but we are also making historic investments to reimagine, rebuild and renew New York after the worst economic crisis. and health in the last century, “Cuomo said, quoted in the statement.

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