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Oct 19, 2024 | 
riverdalepress.staging2.communityq.com | Alaska St. Clair |Gustavo Rivera
Posted Friday, October 18, 2024 2:32 pm After 15 years, I think I’ve demonstrated that [being a public servant] is not just a messaging point or marketing tool, but it’s actually who I am.” State Sen. Gustavo Rivera, up for re-election in the 33rd District this November, never intended to enter politics, but told The Press he’s glad he did. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Rivera moved to New York in 1988 to pursue a PhD in political science at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is technically...
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
riverdalepress.com | Alaska St. Clair |Gustavo Rivera
Gustavo Rivera said he entered politics as a preventative measure against further crimes by 33rd District state senators after his ideal candidate dropped out of the race. ALASKA ST.
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May 9, 2024 | 
devex.com | Gustavo Rivera
Current debt relief efforts, including the G20 Common Framework, are failing due to the lack of mechanisms to compel private lenders to participate. Legislative action in the United Kingdom and New York, two major financial centers, is needed to ensure fair and fast debt restructuring schemes, where private creditors have to share the burden of debt relief.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
buffalonews.com | Gustavo Rivera
Patrick GallivanGustavo RiveraAs politics has grown more polarized in recent years, it often takes a critical issue to bring agreement across both sides of the aisle. Supporting New Yorkers who care for aging or disabled loved ones, who too often serve as unpaid caregivers, is an issue that all of us can support.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
riverdalepress.com | Gustavo Rivera
New York is facing an unprecedented affordability crisis. The cost of basics like rent, food, and health care are increasing dramatically and wages aren’t keeping pace. New Yorkers are struggling, forcing them to make difficult decisions about what they can afford.
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Jan 12, 2024 | 
riverdalepress.com | Gustavo Rivera
As chair of the Senate Health Committee, I have made it my mission to fight for New Yorkers who are forced to navigate a broken health care system that has shamelessly become a profit making enterprise. As I prepare to return to Albany in a few days, I am focused on practical, ambitious solutions that will transform our system into one where care decisions are between providers and their patients. Everyone has a health care story. Your longtime health care provider is suddenly out-of-network.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
riverdalepress.com | Gustavo Rivera
In the past month, we have seen an unprecedented loss of human life. First, there was the brutal attack on Israeli civilians and foreign nationals by the terrorist organization Hamas. Communities across the world are experiencing profound grief and fear. Here in the Bronx, I want you to know that I am with you as our community navigates deep sorrow and uncertainty. I am doing everything in my power as a state senator to provide comfort, support, and to ensure New Yorkers can feel safe.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
riverdalepress.com | Eric Harvey |Gustavo Rivera
A “bi-partisan community rally” led by Curtis Sliwa in front of former Manhattan College dorm Overlook Manor over it potentially turning into a shelter for asylum seekers, was perhaps anything but non-partisan as two sides stood opposite each other in the rain last Sunday in a war of words.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
nydailynews.com | Gustavo Rivera
More than 50 years after the United States government declared a global war on drugs, the crisis of illicit drug use and addiction is more prevalent than ever, on this, International Overdose Awareness Day. Earlier this year New York City reported a from opioid overdoses in 2021. Based on data from the first half of 2022 that number likely increased last year. Statewide, the number of opioid-related deaths tripled between 2010 and 2020.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
jacobin.com | Gustavo Rivera
Jules Grifferty What would the New York Health Act accomplish? Gustavo Rivera It would guarantee health care to every single New Yorker regardless of your age, wealth, or immigration status. It would actually make the system cost less by wasting less money. Right now, we have the most expensive health care system in the world, but certainly not the best results. The reason for that is that health care is a commodity. That is an obscene proposition.
