City Councilmembers last week introduced a bill to encourage better education and training for New Yorkers in workfare, but its supporters worry that even if the bill does pass, it will fall in step with other mandated safeguards that the mayor has chosen not to enforce.
A push to expand rent relief to New Yorkers with disabilities seemed to have tremendous support in Albany, until a plea from Mayor Rudy Giuliani stopped the bill in its tracks.
Filipino immigrants thought they had lucked out when they discovered a job placement agency that focused on finding jobs for people from their country. But after weeks of not getting paid, they took their complaints to the state Department of Labor, which is now investigating the firm.
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