BRONX TEENS GET JOBBED

Already facing big competition for a small number of publicly-funded summer jobs, low-income teens’ prospects for employment when school lets out in June may be even worse than they thought — thanks to a miscalculation by the city Department of Employment.

TAKING STOCK

HPD’s annual housing and vacancy study puts rental vacancy rates way below the mark needed to end rent control.

WAIVER MANIA

This week the House will likely pass its welfare reform reauthorization bill, featuring new work regs and a “superwaiver.”

DATA ADVOCACY

The Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York has released an update of its tome of child well being data.

SAVING WASTE

Comptroller says the city would actually save money if it started recycling plastic and glass again.

EMPTY PROMISES?

New York’s Medicaid system may promise better care for kids with severe mental disorders than it actually delivers.

WORK IS GOOD

As the House passed its TANF reauthorization bill, HHS released new data it says proves the sucess of welfare-to-work.

PREDATORY LEGISLATING

Ohio Rep. Bob Ney wants a federal anti-predatory lending law–one that both preempts and weakens those New York’s already got.