Press Releases
Gillibrand Presses EPA To Strengthen Its Draft Plan To Address PFAS Discharges From Industry
Experts Estimate Nearly 30,000 Industrial Sites Could Be Discharging PFAS Into The Environment, Including Drinking Water Sources; EPA’s Preliminary Plan Excludes Seven out of Nine Industry Categories Making PFAS Pollution Crisis Worse; Gillibrand and Colleagues Seek Expanded List and Deadlines to Establish Standards for PFAS Polluters
Gillibrand Announces Over $2 Million In Funding To Accelerate Technology Entrepreneurship, Strengthen Regional Economies
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $2,653,546 in federal funding for programs that promote tech-based regional economic development. The funding was allocated through the Economic Development Association’s Build to Scale Program and will support...
Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Boost And Reinvigorate The City’s Creative Economy And Create Local Jobs
City-Based Arts Organizations Lost Nearly $1 Billion in Income Throughout COVID-19 Pandemic
Gillibrand Statement On Postal Banking Pilot Program
Gillibrand praises “first step” to create a postal bank; pushes for her bill, the Postal Banking Act
As Biden Administration Eases Global Travel Restrictions, Gillibrand Presses CDC For Medical Justification On Canadian Northern Border Policy
Gillibrand Has Repeatedly Urged for Reopening the Land Border To Vaccinated Canadians; Beginning In November, Travel Restrictions Eased for Fully Vaccinated, Non-Essential Travel Via Air for The EU, UK, And Parts Of Asia
For Build Back Better Agenda, Gillibrand Calls For Historic Investment In Long-Term Care And Caregiver Economy In Binghamton
Between 2012 And 2016, Employment In Home Health Care In New York State Grew By More Than 56,000 Jobs; In 2017, 2.5 Million Family Caregivers In New York State Provided Approximately 2.1 Billion Hours Of Unpaid Care, Worth An Estimated $31 Billion; Home Care Workers Nationwide Earn a Median Wage Of $12 Per Hour and Roughly 18% Live In Poverty
For Build Back Better Agenda, Gillibrand Calls For Historic Investment In Long-Term Care And Caregiver Economy In Ithaca
Between 2012 And 2016, Employment In Home Health Care In New York State Grew By More Than 56,000 Jobs; In 2017, 2.5 Million Family Caregivers In New York State Provided Approximately 2.1 Billion Hours Of Unpaid Care, Worth An Estimated $31 Billion; Home Care Workers Nationwide Earn a Median Wage Of $12 Per Hour and Roughly 18% Live In Poverty
For Build Back Better Agenda, Gillibrand Calls For Historic Investment In Long-Term Care And Caregiver Economy In Buffalo
Between 2012 And 2016, Employment In Home Health Care In New York State Grew By More Than 56,000 Jobs; In 2017, 2.5 Million Family Caregivers in New York State Provided Approximately 2.1 Billion Hours Of Unpaid Care, Worth An Estimated $31 Billion; Home Care Workers Nationwide Earn a Median Wage Of $12 Per Hour and Roughly 18% Live In Poverty
With The Rate Of Military Suicide Outpacing Military Operation Deaths Four To One, Senator Gillibrand Presses For Improved Access To Mental Health Care For Active-Duty Military And Veterans
DoD 2020 Annual Suicide Report Released Today: 580 Service Members Died by Suicide in 2020, An Increase From 498 Service Members in 2019 According to Recent Reporting, Since 9-11, Approximately 7,057 Service Members Have Died In Combat During Military Operations While A Staggering 30,177 Active Duty Personnel And Veterans Have Died By Suicide; As U.S. Soldiers Withdraw From the Longest War In United States History, Many At Home Will Bear The Physical And Mental Scars Of Warfighting in Afgha
Schumer, Gillibrand Announce Over $26 Million In Federal Funding For Head Start Across New York State
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S .Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced $26,325,641 in Head Start funding to support early childhood education and care services for low-income children. The funding was allocated through the U.S. Department of...