Beverly Davis has a full-time job, a family she supports and a college course to complete. She has plans to become a police officer. Public benefits are essential to her move from low-wage work to economic independence.
Walter Greene worked for a living. Then the work disappeared. Now, like thousands of other low-income New Yorkers, he navigates homeless shelter rules and the welfare bureaucracy.
Advocates are speaking out against proposed cuts to programs that feed and house people living with HIV/AIDS.
With new boss Dennis Walcott, the city school system gets a new chance to improve relations with parents and teachers. But there’ll be no second chance for Robeson High in Bed-Stuy. What does that mean for students?
She came to the city for a concert and never left. Now she’s part of the city’s complex culture of street homelessness—where cardboard signs are gold, and you’re either a “crusty” or you’re not.
Legislators want to restore many human services that Gov. Cuomo proposed cutting. But the Senate and Assembly still differ by tens of millions of dollars on social funding, and some programs still face elimination.
Advocates for the homeless have long criticized the Bloomberg administration’s approach to getting people out of shelters. But with the state threatening to end funding for the program, most advocates have joined the city to oppose the cuts.
Thousands of New York children are raised by relatives other than their parents. Many rely on state programs to support their unexpected second stint as guardians.
Advocates, hoping Gov. Cuomo will back a cap on rent for people in AIDS housing, say research shows that shelter saves lives and reduces government expenditures.
The tiff between Albany and City Hall over education aid isn’t the only fight brewing over the governor’s budget. His cuts to public assistance, homeless services and child welfare are also coming under fire.
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