The funding would be used to provide crucial resources such as congregate and home-delivered meals, case management, adult day services, elder abuse programs and more.
The city needs to make more and quicker progress in ending the tale of two cities for its nonprofit human-service workforce.
First there were four. Then there 10. This year 22 Councilmembers will let constituents decide how to spend money. The dollar impact is impressive. The democracy impact could be even more so.
After the 2010 controversy, 25 firms signed a code of conduct for dealing with the state’s pension funds. Most appear not to have made the disclosures necessary to show they are playing by the rules.
Advocates are pressing City Councilmembers and the mayor for repairs to two green spaces. Parks funding is set to increase, but not enough to meet community needs, they say.
A rally today will call on the de Blasio administration to add money to the budget for summer youth employment, which has shrunk even as teen unemployment remains startling high.
Inequities in the tax system punish renters, reward owners and contribute to economic inequality and the shortage of affordable housing in New York.
The mayor’s executive budget does not include massive increases for the city’s library system, as City Limits previously reported.
The modest growth in the city budget proposed by Mayor de Blasio encompasses the ups and downs that individual departments face. This story has been corrected.
In their annual Advocacy Day at City Hall, senior citizens pressed Councilmembers to shore up funding for naturally occurring retirement communities and to prevent elder abuse.
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