Michael Bloomberg
Suggestive Remarks
Tariqah Adams |
Power of Suggestion
Center for an Urban Future
The New Safety Net?
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We’re spending more to help workers with low wages than we ever spent on welfare checks. Why that’s both good and bad–and what it means for New York.
The Mighty Migrant Dollar
Gabriel Thompson |
A Mexican program is banking on a new revenue stream for local development projects: earnings sent back from their workers abroad. How Mexicans in New York are building a new country back home.
Latino
Saying, Not Showing
Debbie Nathan |
We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11
By Tram Nguyen, with a foreward by Edwidge Danticat, Beacon Press, $14
Recycling
NEW ERA RECYCLING
B. Farrell |
Don’t throw out your old computers. The City Council considers new bills on electronic recycling.
Joel Klein
SCIENCE PROJECT
M. Herbert |
East Brooklyn parents and teachers are gearing up for a rally this week to boost local schools and demand better science education.
BIG CHANGES IN CHILD CARE: CITY HOPES
TO REGULATE INFORMAL PROVIDERS
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The city has come to rely on a web of informal caregivers to serve low-income families. Now it wants to get them licensed.
REMEMBERING LEROY WHITFIELD
B. Farrell |
City Limits honors a contributor and friend, AIDS activist LeRoy Whitfield.
Lower East Side
ARTY PARTY
T. Adams |
Seedco and Henry Street Settlement recruit wannabe dancers, designers and other creative types for a new program focused on careers in the arts. Here’s a look at its first open house.
REMEMBERING JANE BENEDICT HAWLEY
E. Holmgren |
Memorial planned for late community housing activist.
