Episode 3 - Your Money is No Good Here

Published: May 29, 2019, 4 a.m.

How do you not take national currency?  

This week we tackle cashless restaurants: What are they, who they leave out, our experiences.  Also a little fangirl-ing about NY City Councilperson Ritchie Torres at the CC hearings. 

More about this issue:
How Cashless Restaurants Leave Economically Disadvantaged Americans Behind (video)
New York City Bill Proposes Eliminating Cashless Stores and Restaurants
NYC Politican Wants to Ban Cashless Restaurants


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Sippin On

Migrant children in still dying in U.S. custody 
5 Guatemalan children have died after crossing the border in the past six months (May 20th, 2019)
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Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7 years old, while in custody of CBP
Felipe Gomez Alonzo, 8 years old, while in custody of CBP
Juan de Leon Gutierrez, 16 years old, while at an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter
Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, 16 years old, while in custody of CBP

Rent Stabilization Laws
New York Rent Laws: How 9 bills could change regulations across the state
The campaign for rent reform in New York, explained

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