Economy
Queens Radio Show Aims to Help Day Laborers Avoid Death or Injury on the Job
Leila Miller |
Sin Fronteras’ offers advice on a delicate topic for the Latino immigrant community: the exploitation and mistreatment of undocumented laborers.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Choking Incident in NYC School Kitchen Raised Alarms Over Chicken
Jarrett Murphy |
‘The School Food service manager was eating lunch when he began to choke on the bone. The Heimlich maneuver was performed and he spit out the bone.’
Homepage Featured
Video: Does a Higher Minimum Wage Help or Hurt Workers?
Jarrett Murphy |
The federal minimum wage has less buying power than it did 50 years ago and would leave a full-time worker in poverty. But opponents have long insisted that raising it might kill jobs.
affordability
Do NYC’s Middle-Class Families Really Need Affordable Housing?
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The de Blasio administration says there’s need for city-subsidized housing across a wide range of incomes. But data indicates middle-class households face a far less severe affordability problem.
Health and Environment
City’s School Food System Suspends Use of Some Chicken After Bones Found
Jarrett Murphy |
For the second time in as many months, the New York City Department of Education this week suspended plans to serve school-lunch items after media inquiries concerning food safety.
CityPlate: Food Policy in NYC
Video: How Red Hook’s ‘Added Value’ Grew Back After Sandy
Melissa Rose Cooper |
Added Value Farms is an urban farm and compost operation in Red Hook that offers healthy food and community training. Damage from Superstorm Sandy threatened all of that.
build it back
Rare Praise for City’s Build it Back Program
Jarrett Murphy |
For all its well-documented struggles with delays, the program can also claim milestone achievements for hiring and training local workers, says one community coalition.
Investigations
NYC Jails Fail to Identify Prisoners With Cognitive Problems
Ben Hattem |
There’s new attention to problems diagnosing inmates at Rikers with mental illness. But what about people on the autism spectrum, with a low IQ or dealing with a learning disability?
campaign finance
Which Campaigns Owe Money to the City’s Campaign Finance Board?
Jarrett Murphy |
Some 77 candidates owe a combined $2.1 million in fines and overpaid public matching money, some of it dating back to the 2001 election.
Affordable Housing
Skeptics Say City’s Environmental Studies Understate Damage from Development
Abigail Savitch-Lew |
The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.
