For 14 months, I’ve tried to engage progressives & socialists about thousands of Asian immigrant home care workers enduring years of abuse, wage theft, and retaliation. Here are some responses:

1) These workers are fake and are being used
2) They are lucky to have jobs … 3) Your 103 pg report is racist to just pick on Asian employer
4) I haven’t met one Asian home card worker in Albany
5) But 1199SEIU told us ..
6) Take no stance and just post more selfies with nonprofit abusers

On Monday, my colleagues in the Aging Committee will host an oversight hearing in Albany re: how low and middle-class older adults are struggling to pay for home care services. Looking forward to hearing from @NYSAGING @AARPNY @GrayPanthersNY @NYHammond @aiwcampaign & many others After a lifetime of working hard, so many older NYers are waking up to the reality that they either don’t have access to long-term care, or when they do, they are put on a waiting list.

Meanwhile nonprofit contractors continue to steal wages from home care workers …

Billionaires & real estate moguls want to privatize public education to make the case for individual hard work and blame public teachers for societal failures. Here are some facts:

1) Decades of privatized disruption (charters & vouchers) didn’t lead to higher grades. 2) Those at the top do not want their taxes to pay for public education & would rather use nonprofits to solidify cut-throat education while they receive tax breaks.

In functioning democracies worldwide, they look down on "outsourcing" public services like home care work to nonprofits. Here in Flushing & rest of America, we've normalized proxy governments and even given them nonprofit immunity, allowing them to steal wages.

1/ When confronting semi-govt nonprofits like CPC that are contracted to administer $200million of home care services about wage theft, their response is that if they pay all the back wages, they will go bankrupt.

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Doing some deeper dives into CPC’s $200million homecare business and, it’s glaringly obvious CPC is not compliant in paying workers required pay for 24 hr shifts & overtime.

1/ CPC hyper-scaled their home care business into a $200 million mega-business without any desire to protect their workers’ rights.

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🧵on nursing home scandal:

On April 14 2020, Berna Lee contacted my office, fearing that her mother, residing in a nursing home in my district, had been negligently exposed to COVID. Berna had been stonewalled.

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abc7ny.com/nursing-home-d… Desperate for answers, Berna and I went to the nursing home together where I learned the facility was understaffed, short of PPE, overwhelmed and severely under prepared following Gov Cuomo's 3/25/20 directive to send COVID positives to nursing homes.

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Before I endorsed @AndrewYang I took him to see hundreds of people waiting on a food pantry line & showed him where #YangSong, a sex worker, died during a police raid. I needed to know if he saw my neighbors as people who made bad choices or saw a govt failing their people.

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https://twitter.com/RossBarkan/status/1350236836065636352

Most Asian elites, like local developers and landlords, and local politicians have referred to #YangSong as some worthless “prostitute” who deserve to get “splattered” on our sidewalk.

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On November 25, 2017, Yang Song died after falling from a 4th floor balcony during a targeted police raid. Her personal messages revealed that in 2016, she was raped at gunpoint by an undercover police officer and she tried to report the incident 1/ Following her reporting of rape & sexual assault by an undercover officer, Yang Song’s texts & messages also showed months of harassment by Vice NYPD, with threats of deportation 2/

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