As the owner of a long-troubled East New York apartment complex breaks a deal to sell his buildings, tenants riot against him, and find themselves facing a lucrative proposition.
While the Department of Homeless Services struggles to sell its survey of homeless New Yorkers as accurate, the agency faces another numbers challenge: devising a computer registry for a more extensive count–that will determine how much federal cash the city gets.
Despite tens of thousands on the waiting list, 2,000 city-funded daycare slots go unused.
GAO says low pay and high administrative burdens are crippling the nation’s child welfare agencies.
Regulators have approved HSBC’s purchase of Household International–predatory lending’s poster child.
Advocates of East River bridge tolls say its daily users make more money than the rest of the city.
Only about a third as many people got job training under the Workforce Investment Act as did under its predecessor.
Large urban school districts are steadily improving test scores, often outpacing the rest of their state.
Businesses and politicos are figuring out how to make Chinatown an Empire Zone without state approval.
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