FILTRATION COMPANY PREYS ON FEARS OVER TROUBLED WATER

As a
community-based study of cancer rates in Southeast Queens gets underway, city
officials say a company that sells high-end water filtration systems is
preying on local residents’ fears — and posing as city workers to get
into their homes, and their faucets.

TENANTS WIN RIGHT TO OWN

After enduring years of rat infestations
and broken elevators, hundreds of tenants in two Hamilton Heights
apartment buildings last week finally got the message they’d been waiting for
— their homes are theirs, to own.

THE LIFE OF A CITY KID

Infants are more likely to live to be
toddlers today than they were a decade ago, but they’re also more likely to
live in poverty, according to a report released last week.

OUR ACHING HEARTS

A DOH report details the cost, in lives and in dollars, of heart disease in New York.

WEIGHING CHILD CARE

Child care is at the frontline of the TANF reauthorization fight, now in its final stages on Capitol Hill.

STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

State Attorney General Spitzer is trying to put new legs on an old savings plan: municipal consolidation.

SERVICE GAP

Missing services are part of why Asian American seniors face higher rates of poverty and depression than thier peers.

EASY MONEY

The public advocate wants to make sure people hear about new streamlined food stamp applications–with media giant Vivendi’s help.

TIME IS MONEY

What’s a volunteer’s time worth? In 2002, it was $16.54 an hour.