Brooklyn
Turn On, Tune In, Stay In: Lowering The Dropout Rate
Helen Zelon |
From beyond the DOE, advocates offer ideas about how to get more students to graduation.
ARE CITIES ON CANDIDATES' MINDS?: WHERE THEY ARE ON URBAN ISSUES
Jarrett Murphy |
Answers to city dwellers’ questions may not be on the tips of would-be presidents’ tongues, but then Iraq and terrorism have only sharpened an existing trend.
Community Service Society of New York
CHORUS OF DOUBT GREETS CITY'S
NEW PLAN TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS
Adam F. Hutton |
Advocates don’t see how a much shorter rent subsidy provides the right fix for Housing Stability Plus.
Center for an Urban Future
The Big Idea: Getting Back to Work
David Jason Fischer |
No more excuses: Black male unemployment is here to stay, unless New York mobilizes a crisis response. Here are some places to start.
Community Service Society of New York
The Big Idea: Meet the New Boss
Bob Roberts |
Or how poverty activists learned to stop worrying about WEP and to love government jobs programs.
Economy
WAGING FOR A LIVABLE SALARY
Annia Ciezadlo |
After years of delays, a bill requiring that companies that do business with the city pay their employees a living wage may finally be introduced in the City Council this week, but its supporters are wondering if this is the best or worst time to raise the issue.
Citywide
Butler’s Last Stand
Deidre McFadyen |
Once respected as a firebrand union leader for public hospital workers, James Butler is facing a dramatic grassroots member rebellion as he nears 30 years on the job.
Community Service Society of New York
We’ve Got Issues
City Limits |
Eight years of Giuliani is enough to turn anyone into a would-be urban planner. But as the new slew of candidates takes on the city’s toughest choices, they may regret getting what they wished for.
Citywide
The New Wage Movement
City Limits |
They clean bedpans, do laundry and take care of children, all for a song. Meet the people who might be the biggest players in the mayoral campaign: the thousands making pitiful wages working for New York City. Plus, see how other cities’ living wage laws are faring.
