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Then-HRA Commissioner Robert Doar at left with Mayor Bloomberg in 2012.
A rise in welfare rolls by 13,000 generates heated headlines. Meanwhile, the reality of 1.6 million New Yorkers in poverty triggers a new policy prescription.
The number of job openings, hirings, firings, layoffs and quits can hint at how employers and workers are feeling about the economy. And those sentiments can, in turn, shape consumer decisions, wages and more.
School officials have talked for years about improving special education. The de Blasio administration is trying a new approach. Does it go deep enough?
If protecting neighborhood riders is more important that shoring up the profits of Uber and Lyft, two livery industry officials write, then the TLC should support a bill to regulate livery cabs shifting from one area to another.
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