From Seroll Burt
April 9, 2025
The Myries agenda deals with four decisive growth points for the black community, including public health and economic development.
The Senator of New York, Zellnor Myrie, published its black agenda for NYC in front of his New York Mayor campaign, reports New York Amsterdam News.
His agenda deals with four decisive growth points for the black community interior wealth, public health, the economic development and the repair of the climate and repair of the infrastructure – based on his experience in Brooklyn. “I grew up with black New Yorkers who understood that they had the opportunity to be successful in this city. On the way to success,” said Myrie during a press conference.
“But for too many black New Yorkers is no longer a reality. The city is different, and the next mayor of this city must have an agenda that will help black New Yorkers.”
Myrie's term as a senator since 2019 has caused him to work for the civil rights of the black New Yorkers.
With the new Trump government in the office that the 38-year-old politician believes that the focus was on the protection of civil rights, which was made by black leadership, since he says: “We have a president who expressly aimed at black people in this whole country. A president who eliminates, accused of employees who have accused employees of the enforcement of civil rights,” Afro-Costa Rican candidate.
“Sieges that we have fought for decades are now being deleted under this president.”
He has a strategy to tackle all points on the public agenda, one of the premises is affordable for everyone. As parents, fighting affordable childcare in the city, Myrie fight According to the New York Times, a post-school program in front of the school that would cover children from three years to high school seniors free of charge. The ProgRAM would run until 6 p.m. on weekdays and guarantee places in the city's free summer and enrichment program.
Other priorities of his agenda are the establishment of a fund for first -generation buyers and the support on anti -discrimination laws in mortgage loans. Myrie announced public security and announced plans to expand the pilot program, which was launched in October 2024, which is aimed at prevention of arms. In public health, his agenda positions the financing for dedicated birth centers in parts of Black-Majority and the expansion of the medicaid cover for Doulas and midwives in the hope of reducing the high maternity rates in black women.
His plan will also deal with the resources for mental health, implement free psychiatric services and career paths for young black men and launch a trauma center in the Rockaways districts of Queens.
With the democratic area code on June 24, 2025, Myrie collected donations of almost 4 million US dollars during his campaign, but is one of four black candidates that run for the seat of the mayor. The candidates include the reigning mayor Eric Adams, the spokesman for the city council, Adrienne Adams, and the former member of the meeting, Michael Blake.
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