Public News Service
A New York nurses union leader says federal immigration policies are crippling New York’s labor force.
New data show the state is losing thousands of workers to the chilling effect of ICE arrests and other enforcement actions, with fewer people to fill those jobs. It is especially problematic for an already strained healthcare sector, which is grappling with the Supreme Court’s decision to remove Temporary Protected Status from Haitian immigrants…
…A University of Albany report found some major challenges for recruitment of nurses are non-competitive salaries and not enough people looking to do the work.