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Manhattan Certified Financial Planner on Tariffs Affecting Consumers and How to Save Money
Post Views: 1,115New York (WCBS 880) — David Mendels, Certified Financial Planner at Creative Financial Concepts, LLC in New York City says tariffs could hurt consumers, especially if it leads to a trade war. Mendels concedes it could create jobs in the rust belt. In an interview with WCBS Newsradio 880 Producer Neil A. Carousso, Mendels advises on how people should plan for their financial future.
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National Women And Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Post Views: 1,125NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Saturday is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
It promotes safe sex and ways to prevent the spread of the virus.
WCBS Newsradio 880 Preducer Neil A. Carousso spoke with Stephane Howze, senior vice president of New York City-based healthcare nonprofit Amida Care, which specializes in HIV treatment for people in under-served communities.
She says with new treatments available, such as PrEP, education is key to prevent the spread of the sexually transmitted disease.
She stresses pre-exposure prophylaxis, daily medication to prevent HIV from taking hold and spreading throughout one’s body, would lead to the reduction of new HIV cases.
“If we’re able to do more education in those communities about the use of PrEP and normalize it, that you can take control of your sexual health by using PrEP or learning about PrEP or having your provider educated about PrEP that they can speak to you about it,” Howze said. “I think that’s one way that we would be able to help with the reduction of new HIV cases.”
“We can be engaging as health care providers, we can be open and thoughtful as insurers, and make sure that we are able to provide a network of providers that are sensitive and competent in serving their needs,” Howze added.
Howze also said doctors should offer HIV tests to their patients.
“You go to your primary care provider you should be getting offered an HIV test,” Howze said. “If we start there with knowing your status and then using some of these more high-tech solutions I think we’ll be able to put a real dent in new infections.”
Four years ago, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his goal to reduce the number of infections in New York State to 750 from an estimated 3,000 by 2020.
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Low Voter Turnout Expected in New York, Virtual Democrat Monopoly
Post Views: 1,438By Neil A. Carousso
It’s Election Day, but you may not be aware.
Voting turnout in the 2013 New York City election was a record low 23 percent. A mere 14 percent of voters showed up for the September primary.
NYC VOTES: TERRORISM AND TRANSPORTATION AMONG IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR VOTERS, CANIDATES
Compound this with Comptroller Scott M. Stringer’s recent audit showing problems at 90 percent of 156 polling sites examined.
“What we found was just outrageous,” Comptroller Stringer said, citing, “People turned away at the polls, poll workers not realizing how they can get people to vote, ballots were voided.”
Throughout New York State, only about 15 races of 213 legislative seats are competitive in any given year. Comptroller Stringer aims to increase voter participation.
Republicans do not hold any seats in Manhattan. Besides Staten Island and parts of the State, one party holds a virtual monopoly of each district.
The polls in New York City are open until 9 PM.
NYC COMPTROLLER STRINGER AND CANDIDATE REV. FAULKNER VIE FOR CFO JOB
Featured Image: New York Daily News Photo.
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NYC Comptroller Stringer and Candidate Rev. Faulkner Vie for CFO Job
Post Views: 1,934By Neil A. Carousso
In two separate sit-down interviews, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer (D) and his Republican challenger Rev. Michel Faulkner discussed their ideas for improving the City’s transit delays, how to work with the Trump Administration and prevent the loss of federal funding for the New York Police Department, among other issues.
Rev. Faulkner is a retired NFL Player who worked on former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s community policing task force. Now, Rev. Faulkner is running opposite Incumbent Comptroller Stringer.New Yorkers vote for City comptroller on the ballot on Tuesday. The polls in the Big Apple close at 9 PM local time.
Featured Image: Comptroller Scott M. Stringer and Rev. Michel Faulkner debate on Spectrum News NY1 in October.
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Bo Dietl on Solving New York’s Opioid Demand Problem
Post Views: 1,923By Neil A. Carousso
Drug overdose deaths, once rare, are now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, surpassing peak annual deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents and HIV infection. It kills 100 people a day.
Bo Dietl, Independent New York City Mayoral Candidate and retired New York Police Department detective told this reporter one step is to remove so-called sanctuary city status to stem the supply of opioids coming in via illegal immigrant smuggling. An imperative, Dietl said, is to solve the demand for opioids.
“We got to hit this 3 ways: Enforcement, we got to send these son of a guns to jail for the rest of their lives,” Dietl said of drug dealing. ” “Number 2 is education. Number 3 is treatment.”
Over the last two decades, as prescriptions for opioids began to soar, rates of addictions and overdose deaths increased in parallel.
President Donald J. Trump declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency on October 26.
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