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New York City will give debit cards to migrant families for food and baby supplies. The first cards will be distributed to families on Monday, sparking fear that the new program could lead to fraud or abuse as well as speculation that the city will be prioritizing migrants over current citizens. As many 180,000 migrants have arrived in the city over the last two years with 65,000 now in shelters. “A family of four is expected to receive up to $350 per week under the program, which will last six weeks, city officials said. The program will begin with 10...

A mom of three given nearly $11,000 in a taxpayer-funded program for impoverished families has admitted blowing most of it on a luxurious five-day trip to Miami — even getting a $180 glow-up to not look like a “working” mom while there. Canethia Miller, 27, was one of 132 mothers in Washington, DC accepted last year into the “Strong Families, Stronger Futures” pilot program designed to help those living around the poverty line, according to the Washington Post. She chose to take a no-strings-attached $10,800 lump sum, rather than $900 monthly payments — and immediately spent more than $6,000 on...

Local families in the predominantly black Roxbury neighborhood of Boston are furious after the city shut down the local community center to instead use it to house more of President Joe Biden’s illegal border crossers. Roxbury’s Melnea A. Cass Recreational Community Center, which was once a meeting place for Little League ball players, volleyball games, and other sports and community events, has now been dedicated to rows of cots for illegal border crossers, CBS, WBZ-TV Boston reported. WBZ interviewed pre-teen Jeremiah Rodriguez who showed up at the community center on Feb. 17 under the mistaken impression that his community baseball...

Former President Obama stood by President Biden’s commitment to the NATO alliance on Wednesday, days after former President Trump sparked concern around the globe by saying the U.S. should not defend NATO allies who fall short of their defense spending targets. “President Biden is absolutely right,” Obama wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “The last thing we need right now is a world that is more chaotic and less secure; where dictators feel emboldened and our allies wonder if they can count on us. Let’s keep moving forward.” Obama was responding to a statement from Biden saying the NATO alliance keeps...

The city of Austin, Texas, helped provide a guaranteed income of $1,000 a month to 135 households for a one-year period. According to a new report prepared by the Urban Institute, most of the money went toward housing. According to the report, nearly 60% of the money used in the UpTogether program was spent on housing, while 20% went to basic needs, 10% went to other bills, and the remainder was put into investments or given to help others.

Baby boomers now own twice as many large homes as millennials with kids, Redfin reported. Boomers don't have much financial incentive to downsize as millennials struggle to buy. Land-use, tax, and other policies need to change, and many more homes need to be built, experts say. Baby boomers whose kids don't live with them anymore are clinging to their large homes, making things worse for millennial families looking to settle down, according to a new Redfin analysis. Empty-nest boomers now own 28% of homes in the US with three or more bedrooms — double the 14% that millennials with kids...

The shelves at a Bronx food pantry have been bare for the past two weeks as hungry New Yorkers face heightened food insecurity at the beginning of the New Year. The Albanian American Open Hand Association (AAOHA), located in Pelham Parkway, fed around 800 weekly before the pandemic, but that has since doubled to 1,600. For the first time in 10 years, the pantry has been forced to turn people away. For weeks now, hungry New Yorkers have lined up outside AAOHA on Thursdays and Fridays – when food is distributed.

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld met Monday with several of the hostages freed by Hamas and the families of those still held captive in Gaza. The 69-year-old “Seinfeld” actor — who worked on a kibbutz in Israel as a teen — arrived in Tel Aviv with his wife Jessica to attend an event held by the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum, where he spoke with the former hostages and relatives for hours to show his support over their plight. “Seinfeld told the families that he feels a deep commitment to raising awareness around the world about the issue of the hostages,”...

President Biden and members of his administration met Wednesday at the White House with families of American hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. After the meeting, the families spoke to reporters, holding photos of their loved ones, and expressed confidence that the administration would work tirelessly to bring their family members home. “We met today with President Biden and other people from the administration. It was a terrific, terrific meeting and conversation,” said Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose 35-year-old son was kidnapped from his kibbutz on Oct. 7, at the start of his remarks.

Iris Chaim, mother of Yotam, a hostage in Gaza, disapproves of the conduct at the war cabinet meeting held on Tuesday in Herzliya. "We came to get answers from the war cabinet, and after a minute in the room I realized that I had come to a war, a war well managed by interested parties who are taking advantage of the families and trying to put a rift between us and the state," she said. "People shut me up just because I wanted to express support for the cabinet, they beat people who wanted to express support for the cabinet,"...

Middle-class families in California are getting slammed with an "unreasonable" cost-of-living-penalty for simply residing in the Golden State, according to a new report. According to data from the Transparency Foundation's Cost of California Report, a typical middle-class family of three earning $130,000 a year faces a financial burden of more than $26,000 because of higher living expenses. The nonpartisan group's report compares costs such as housing, utilities, food, gas, child care and health care, in every major household budget category between California and national averages. The foundation's data showed that on every household budget, the cost to live in California...

e Adams administration is moving ahead with controversial plans to force migrant families with children staying in the city’s shelter system to reapply for housing every 60 days, officials announced Monday. The new rules, officials say, aim to cajole recent arrivals to find new accommodations and mirror a policy that requires single adults migrants city shelters to reapply for their housing every 30 days. City Hall’s clamp down comes as the number of people living in city shelters facilities has doubled since the migrant crisis began last year: More than 118,000 people — 64,000 of them migrants — currently live...

President Biden plans to meet via Zoom with the families of Americans held captive by Hamas terrorists Friday, telling CBS’ “60 Minutes” that he wants to show his administration will do all they can to get hostages back home — if they can locate them. “I think they have to know that the president of the United States of America cares deeply about what’s happening. Deeply,” Biden, 80, told anchor Scott Pelley in an interview that was recorded Thursday and will air in full Sunday evening.

"The Biden administration is mulling a change that'd have migrant families who entered the U.S. illegally remain near the border in Texas...."

The Biden administration is mulling a change that'd have migrant families who entered the U.S. illegally remain near the border in Texas during vetting of their asylum applications, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. The change is being considered amid the staggering numbers of families that crossed the southern border into states like Texas and Arizona in July. While the Border Patrol put the number at more than 60,000, The Washington Post reported last week the number was closer to 91,000 families, which would be a record. By tracking and limiting their travels . . .

“Your daughter is trans, and you’re a homophobic racist if you don’t accept her,” the court-appointed guardian told Mark. Stunned, Mark realized the gravity of what his daughter, Summer, was experiencing. Determined to intervene, he reached out to resources he hoped would offer an alternative perspective, one that could steer her away from a decision he feared might haunt her for life. Summer was only 12 years old when she expressed a desire to transition to male. According to Mark, the decision followed a traumatic three-month period during which she was emotionally vulnerable and lacked proper guidance. Rather than receiving...

Record numbers of migrant families crossed the US-Mexico border in August, a bombshell new report said this week after The Post revealed that US officials have inexplicably welded open more than 100 gates along the Arizona border. US Border Patrol officials arrested at least 91,000 migrants who crossed the border as part of a family group, according to preliminary data obtained by the Washington Post – beating the previous one-month record of 84,486 migrant families arrested in May 2019, under the Trump administration. Migrant families accounted for the largest demographic group crossing the border in August, surpassing single adults for...

Lonely office buildings languishing away during the remote and hybrid work boom could have a new life — and it might mean your next apartment could be both good for the environment and your wallet. A new working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research by Arpit Gupta, Candy Martinez, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh finds that more than 2,000 office buildings in American downtowns could be converted into eco-friendly apartment buildings. Those conversions could yield up to 400,000 new apartment units, and, at minimum, over 170,000 new units — a major boon in cities simultaneously inflicted with housing crises...

Christine Chavez, a California single mother, has been living on the street for some time, and now she’s dead, killed accidentally by a lawnmower while sleeping in a grassy area.A homeless mother sleeping in a California park was killed last week after she was run over by a lawnmower — and investigators left “chunks” of her body strewn across the grass, her family claims.Christine Chavez, 27, was lying in the tall grass of Beard Brook Park in Modesto around noon on July 8 when an employee riding a John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower swept the area.The unidentified worker...

Relatives of people aboard the ill-fated Titanic cruise liner, which sank in 1912, say tourist trips to the shipwreck site — like those offered by the missing OceanGate Titan sub — are “disgusting” and disrespectful to those who perished in the disaster. The wreckage should be treated like an underwater “graveyard” of the 1,496 who died, not a “Disneyland” for adventure-seeking tourists, the family members told the Daily Beast.