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On Thursday, Lopez Garcia returned to campus — virtually. She was honored as one of six students selected to deliver speeches to hundreds of graduates, faculty and guests at the livestreamed ceremony.

School officials in districts that failed to garner enough support for their proposed budgets on Tuesday night said they are considering their options, including new spending proposals, in the coming days.

The final deal, according to messages circulated by union leaders to their members, pays workers 4.5% in raises in the fourth year, but with some percentage of that increase funded through concessions. Those include the extension of the contract by six weeks, ending in mid-2027.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits for the the week ending May 9 rose by 12,000 to 211,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s slightly more than the 207,000 new applications analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet had forecast.

A 12-hour negotiation session between MTA managers and LIRR union leaders ended late Thursday night without a deal that would to avert a railroad strike and leave tens of thousands of New Yorkers struggling to get on, off and around Long Island.

SNAP, the nutritional support program formerly known as food stamps, has long served as a financial pulse of sorts that measures economic hard times.