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Those who did receive the aid got on average $4,700, which advocates say hasn’t come close to helping rebuild their lives.

Currently, more than 4,400 people are being held on Rikers Island and in other city jails pre-trial, mostly due to bails they are unable to post.

Trustees of three New York City pension funds are pledging to develop an investment portfolio that would generate net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

During an Instagram Live broadcast on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez offered a vivid and emotional retelling of her experience in the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.

"When you're standing on this line, you're not just asking for $1, you are asking for transformational change for your lives, over the lives of every food worker across this country."

Law enforcement in Washington D.C. also said they detained a Colorado man who allegedly threatened to shoot House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi on live TV and was found with 2,500 rounds of ammunition.

"We're not going to quit, obviously," said Con Edison president Tim Cawley.

Senator Bernie Sanders led the polls in Iowa, but impeachment kept him in Washington. Enter AOC.

'The largest housing development in the United States of America. He was in our backyard and you didn't include the community.'

'I am more than ready to assume the office of President of the United States,' Sanders said. 'To put it bluntly, I’m back.'

This was the ninth town hall meeting Ocasio-Cortez has hosted in her district since taking office but the first since the impeachment inquiry began.

On Monday, Council member Mark Levine, who has been leading the effort to draft legislation for a bailout, said the Congresswoman’s attention to the issue gives the plan “enormous momentum.”