Latino
CASHING IN ON BUSH
K. Wright |
Scammers are already trying to cash in on President Bush’s proposal to offer work visas to undocumented immigrants.
Latino
LATINO OPINIONS
K. Wright |
Latinos are more supportive of public education and teachers than either whites or African Americans.
Latino
AIDS Goes Gray
Kai Wright and LeRoy Whitfield |
Two decades have passed. Medicine has advanced. People are living longer. But what will happen when an intricate and expensive safety net can’t keep up?
Latino
The Big Idea: Down for the (Re)count
Matthew Schuerman |
The Census counts prisoners in their cells, not their neighborhoods. Now a move is afoot to change their addresses.
Hunger
ACROSS THE BOARD
K. Wright |
Black and Latino students trail their white classmates on every one of more than a dozen predictors of academic achievement.
Latino
IN THE ZONE
Tom Stabile |
A new planning tool pushed by Councilmember David Yassky and Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 could mandate affordable housing citywide.
Latino
Miracle on 33rd Street
Debbie Nathan |
This holiday season, more than 200,000 letters from poor
New Yorkers will plead with Santa Claus for toys, clothes, even school supplies. But how many will get what they wish for? It all depends on how visitors to a post office charity program decide who’s needy and who’s merely nice.
Latino
L.A. Confident
Bobbi Murray |
When government offers subsidies to corporations, West Coast communities have won by playing hardball at the bargaining table. Now New York’s getting in on the action.
