[LI] Voting themselves freebies. Something that can't go on forever, won't.
New Yorkers collected $2.6 billion in welfare cash payments last year, city data shows
New York City doled out more than $2.6 billion in cash assistance to city residents in 2025, a Fox News Digital review of city records showed.
The money reached a record 864,999 people, a 30-year high not matched since before former Mayor Rudy Giuliani instituted major welfare reform in the early 2000s.
The $2.6 billion figure represents a 71% increase from 2022’s $1.57 billion, data showed.
When coupled with payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the city paid out more than $7 billion in welfare to residents in 2024, according to a Fox News analysis of data from the city’s Human Resources Administration (HRA).
The rise in welfare payments comes as some of New York City’s wealthiest contemplate a Big Apple exodus due to what many have described as a policy environment unfriendly to businesses and moneymakers.
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin notably threatened to put a major Midtown renovation on hold for his Citadel offices after socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani targeted him by name in a video announcing a new tax on second homes in the city...
Though Mamdani inherited the state of his city’s welfare system from his predecessors, his policy decisions indicate a continuation of the upward rise in payments.
Do you believe all of this money is going to American citizens? Of course it isn’t.
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Posted by: Lord Garth ||
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NYC’s trajectory has been obvious for a long time- once I saw a truck go past and on the side, in huge letters, was - New York City Stump Grinding Program Bill de Blasio Mayor - was not as impressed as Hizzoner might have hoped.
[Just The News] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has responded to New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani saying he is actively researching whether his administration could arrest when he visits New York City for the United Nations General Assembly in September.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu in November 2024, alleging that he committed war crimes in Gaza.
"I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague," Mamdani said on The New York Times’ the Interview podcast.
"He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court, and what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these past many years," he added.
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Could you imagine, a bunch of very foolish NYPD officer, ten out of the entire force, decent on Netanyahu and then have to deal with his security trying to take him down. I want to be there for the 15 second shootout.
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Would he have Secret Service protection if in New York City to visit the UN or some such diplomatic thing?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
