Welfare
TURNING INTO FALL
Kemba Johnson |
In the current issue of City Limits–an examination of the right-wing politics and posse of welfare chief Jason Turner.
Homelessness
RIGHTS OF FALL
Kemba Johnson |
Despite a probable mayoral veto, the City Council is on the verge of voting up a bill that would give the homeless a litany of rights and new programs.
Rudy Giuliani
CASHLESS LOCALS SUFFER, COUNCIL FEELS THEIR PAIN
Kemba Johnson |
Mayor Giuliani has kept $170 million from community groups to protest the City Council’s budget, and the effects are leading to a lawsuit.
Homeless Help Wanted
Kemba Johnson |
The city has been quietly contracting out jobs to homeless shelter residents.
Hunger
HEATHER REPORT
Kemba Johnson |
In the premier issue of Bully Pulpit, the fax monthly takes a look at the ideology of influential City Journal writer Heather MacDonald.
Welfare
NEW STUDY FINDS INSURANCE FLAWED AMONG EMPLOYEES
Kemba Johnson |
New Yorkers at small employers or working part-time are increasingly unlikely to have health care.
Bronx
BFI GOES STERILE
Kemba Johnson |
South Bronx activists successfully fought Browning Ferris Industries plans to site a medical waste incinerator in their neighborhood–and their reward is a proposed plant to sterlize medical waste.
Manhattan
SHELTER RESIDENTS PERFORM UNION JOBS AT HOMELESS AGENCY
Kemba Johnson |
Residents of a city-run homeless shelter in Brooklyn are working at the administrative offices to do data-entry, giving them access to confidential information.
David Dinkins
Landmarks Omission
Kemba Johnson |
African-Americans have been making history in New York for centuries, but you’d never know it from the roster of city landmarks and historic districts. A beauty-biased landmarks commission is to blame, but so are some community leaders.
Justice
PARRISH THE THOUGHT. GOODNIGHT DARLENE.
Kemba Johnson |
Hirings and firings in the government and nonprofit world.
