The Real Cost of Health Care in New York | Crain’s New York Business
A federal rule enacted by the Trump administration requires hospitals to disclose their cash prices, or the costs of procedures without health insurance, and the rates they negotiate with insurance companies for all their services. The patchwork of information that can be extracted shows that local hospitals charge patients wildly different amounts for the same few common procedures—with variations at times exceeding $10,000
Here are the firms that cashed in on the election, and one that didn’t | Crain’s New York Business
New York's political consultants cashed in like never before during this year's election cycle, turning ranked-choice voting and the city's reformed public financing system into a multimillion-dollar bonanza. Mayoral candidates paid their hired guns more than $40 million during the primary season as the city’s matching funds program pumped roughly $109 million into Big Apple campaigns, a Crain’s New York Business review of public finance data shows.
How is the hospitality industry filling 137,500 missing jobs? Robots | Crain’s New York Business
In early 2020, nearly half a million New Yorkers worked in the city’s sprawling leisure and hospitality sector, which includes restaurants, bars, hotels, sightseeing spots and arts institutions. Nearly two years later, one-third—137,500—of the jobs are still missing. In place of workers are downscaled services and myriad forms of customer self-service. Many of the latter are powered by technology: tablets and QR code–enabled menus, automated kitchen prep robots and prerecorded audio tours.
Master’s Capstone | December 2020
As Pandemic Endures, Impact on Households is Here to Stay
David Goldstein’s wife, Amy, is a healthcare worker. He hates when people call her a hero.
City Hall Occupation To Cut NYPD’s Budget Stretches Into Third Day | Gothamist
Hundreds of protesters remained in City Hall Park on tarps and under beach umbrellas for the third day in a row, demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio agree to reallocate at least $1 billion of the NYPD’s $6 billion budget.
The Value of Invisible Work in the Age of the Coronavirus | Independent Project
As work from home policies become widespread, households' divisions of labor are getting recalibrated. This time around, they are even more unfair to women. Claire Song, a web designer in Hoboken, New Jersey, spent a lot of time at home working last week. She is in charge of cooking three times a day, doing laundry twice a week, and vacuuming every other day.
The US census has built-in resistance to coronavirus | Quartz
The 2020 US census should be just fine despite the coronavirus. The count is designed so there are multiple ways to respond without ever coming face-to-face with a human and risking infection.
For Achilles athletes and their guides, running marathons is a team sport | Queens Eagle
Wheels, walking sticks, crutches, canes and sneakers rhythmically crunched the fallen leaves across Flushing Meadows Corona Park as a dozen runners and their guides clocked their final mileage in preparation for this year's New York City Marathon.