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Readers sound off on coercing abuse reports 42%
By Voice of the People79%
7/12/2026, 12:00:51 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 36 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Hasty Generalization, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 42.7% saturation with 493 hits. Analysis detected 3,398 faulty-reasoning hits from 1,154 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 45.9% and a BS Rank of 42% (12,857 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 58.70% of the article peer group.
By Voice of the People | voicers@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News
PUBLISHED: July 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM EDT
Pushing probes on parents hurts families
Manhattan: Re “ Child welfare responses for kids in need ” (op-ed, July 6): NYC Administration for Children’s Services Commissioner Rebecca Jones Gaston is right that reducing unwarranted reports of child abuse and neglect must be a priority, and she names a key reason: Too many reports stem from poverty, not danger.
In 2025, New York investigated 130,407 Child Protective Services reports alleging “neglect or deprivation of necessities” (alleged in 95% of all reports), but only about one in five were substantiated.
When a family simply needs food or housing, an investigation helps no one and may discourage families from seeking support.
The question is how to act on that priority.
One solution before the state Legislature is the Supporting Families Together Act.
Today, mandated reporters can face criminal and civil penalties for not reporting — a threat that drives over-reporting.
Professionals across the state have told us that fear of penalties compels them to report even when a child’s safety isn’t at stake.
This bill would remove those penalties, letting professionals use their judgment to connect families with help while still allowing any genuine safety concerns to be reported.
Long-lasting harm comes from the experience of a CPS investigation itself.
Every child and caregiver spared this harm is real progress — and this bill would spare many.
Rachel Ghosh, senior policy researcher, Children’s Rights
Manhattan: The decision to bring whole and 2% milk back to school lunches reflects the influence of the dairy industry more than the needs of today’s students.
Millions of Americans — particularly people of color — are lactose intolerant, making cow’s milk an unsuitable choice for many children.
Nutritious plant-based milks such as soy, oat and pea are widely available and can meet students’ nutritional needs without excluding those who can’t digest dairy.
Schools should provide meals that are healthy, inclusive and reflective of today’s diverse student population.
Continuing to prioritize dairy over plant-based alternatives ignores both public health and the growing demand for more compassionate food choices.
If we truly want school nutrition programs to serve every child, plant-based milk should be treated as a standard option, not an afterthought.
Permissive prosecutor
Whitestone: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General T.
March Bell suspended payments to N.Y.
Attorney General Leticia James’ Medicaid Fraud Control Unit for doing a poor job, ranking last among indictments for similar-sized units in fighting Medicaid fraud.
I don’t think anybody should be surprised that she’s at the bottom of the barrel in prosecutions of this major corruption issue.
The attorney general’s office is only as good as its leadership.
Maybe it’s time for us to remove James and find someone who will go after this fraud and save American taxpayers billions of dollars.
Williamstown, N.Y.: I think Gov.
Hochul is doing a fantastic job for New York.
She says and does all the right things.
She’s a home-run hitter, and in my opinion, she should be New York’s governor forever.
She’s got my vote.
She deserves all respect.
Girard Anthony Ruberton
Manhattan: After two more home runs in Thursday afternoon’s game , is it too early to start referring to the Yankees’ Ben Rice as “Dartmouth’s Lou Gehrig”?
Emotional outpouring
Riverhead, L.I.: After witnessing the riots, looting and destruction caused by fans after the Knicks won, I shudder to think of the consequences and mayhem if they had lost.
Bronx: Whatever Voicer Lloyd Litwak thinks of Karl Marx, the books, journalistic pieces and essays — one that earned him a Ph.D. — didn’t write themselves.
Calling him lazy is questionable.
To say all rich people earn their wealth and the poor are lazy shows Litwak to be either dishonest or ignorant.
The idea that people picking fruits and vegetables for poverty wages don’t work as hard as those who inherit their wealth or gain it through unethical means is a sick joke.
Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people in the world.
Does Litwak believe the poorly paid Amazon workers who make his wealth possible are lazy?
Then there’s the charge of Democratic Party antisemitism.
For many decades, blind support of Israel, right or wrong, has been bipartisan.
Now that there’s disapproval for the policies of a horrific Israeli prime minister, these critics, including Jews like myself, are all anti-Jewish?
Bronx: To Voicer Lloyd Litwack: Your letter describes the MAGA Republican Party exactly.
Their war, our costs
Edgewater, N.J.: Probably few of our elected warmongers pay for their own gasoline and food, and if they do, this year’s wild increases in prices likely reflect a very small portion of their incomes and wealth.
But the rest of us, who were promised in 2024 huge reductions in pre-war prices, have suffered extra bigly and unexpectedly.
For more than four months of war, we’ve endured rosy optimism proclaiming prices will revert to “normal” any minute now.
Even if that happens soon, what about all that extra cash that bled out of American households since this war of choice began?
In the memo of understanding with Iran, we promise to facilitate almost a half-trillion dollars of reparations for our sworn enemy, but where in the Trump First (Americans Last) agenda is any sense of recompense for us?
Good thing the greatest dealmaker’s running this show, right?
Manhattan: In his mind, President Trump is immune from all rules, national and international.
He’s also figured out that the White House is a cash cow and nobody is stopping him from making the most of it: foreign investments in his crypto ventures, meme coins that make money only for him and his family but stiff other investors, and insider day trading.
Real regulation is needed to rein in this corruption, but the CLARITY Act is not it.
Focusing on crypto, it actually loosens supervision by regulators and lets our previously safe banks and retirement funds play with this crazy form of currency that, since its formation in 2009, has still not found a legitimate use beyond crime and making money for the latest class of billionaire Bernie Madoffs.
Hamilton Square, N.J.: So, Trump’s guy got a no-bid contract to paint/resurface the Reflecting Pool.
His so-called indestructible liner was supposedly damaged by some sort of knife .
Do the taxpayers get a refund or will we now pay twice?
Brooklyn: After so many years of not writing, I had to.
What the hell happened to the country I loved so much?
Pretty-boy Trump has touched my last nerve.
I had to say something.
Hallandale Beach, Fla.: So incredibly saddened to hear that the legendary Bonnie Tyler has passed away .
Her music gave us so many iconic anthems that have stood the test of time.
Rest in peace, Bonnie.
You will be deeply missed.
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