COMING UP SHORT
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More than half of “likely voters” say they or someone they knew had trouble meeting monthly housing costs last year.
HOME LABOR
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The AFL-CIO will invest $400 million over the next year in building multi-family housing units.
Government
SCHOOLS OPT OUT
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Only a quarter of the city’s school districts are in compliance with health education mandates.
Community Service Society of New York
PLUMMETING STOCK
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About ten percent of federally-subsidized housing built in New York City since the 1960s has since disappeared into the private market.
MISSING MOMS
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Fewer than 2,000 of the estimated 20,000 mothers under 21-years-old who haven’t finished high school are accessing city aid.
THE BIG PICTURE
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More than 14 million households spend over half of their income on housing, a new Joint Center of Housing Studies report says.
Bronx
AMERICORPS' TROUBLES
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Local AmeriCorps grantees this week joined a frantic national campaign to prevent millions of dollars in funding cuts for the program.
National
FEDERAL MANDATE
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A federal appeals court says the city must take extra steps to help poor people living with AIDS get public assistance.
POOR 'MODEL MINORITY'
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Twenty-four percent of the city’s Asian American children live below the poverty line.
