Morning Brief: December 23

New York City’s mayor has announced that non-union workers will be granted six weeks of paid parental leave. Bill de Blasio unveiled the new initiative Tuesday; it will affect over 20,000 of the city’s union-less workers. The new leave days will cost a total of $15 million, a sum that will be paid for by cutting long-serving workers’ vacations by two days, and scrapping a planned 0.47% raise for managers. But de Blasio says those sacrifices are worth it. “New York City,” he said, “is leading by example, putting us at the forefront of paid parental leave policies around the country.”

NEED TO KNOW

Iraqi Forces Fighting ISIS for Ramadi Push Toward City Center [New York Times]

Over a Million Migrants and Refugees have Reached Europe this Year, says IOM [The Guardian]

Virginia to Stop Recognizing Concealed Carry Gun Permits from 25 States [Washington Post]

Bagram Attack: NY Cop Among 6 U.S. Troops Killed [CNN]

Unseasonable Greetings in a New York Searching for Jack Frost [New York Times]

WEATHER
60 degrees and rainy [Full Forecast]

SPORTS

Yesterday
No local sports action last night

Tonight
The Knicks face Cleveland at 7:00
The Nets take on Dallas at 7:30

ON STAGE TONIGHT

Kenny Rogers @ The Theater at Westbury

Chris Botti @ Blue Note Jazz Club

Steve Tyrell @ Cafe Carlyle

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.