Bronx
Friends in High Places
Cassi Feldman |
In the shadow of the High Line, other open-space efforts wither.
Make The Road
TRANSLATING MEDICAID
K. Wright |
The majority of Medicaid recipients needing language assistance still aren’t getting it, according to a new survey.
Latino
Older Kids Lose Out
Daniel Hendrick |
Overhauling alternative high schools could push out the system’s senior residents.
Bronx
OLDER HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LOSING SEATS
Daniel Hendrick |
Education czar Joel Klein’s plan to reorganize several high schools meant for the city’s oldest, most troubled students could slowly squeeze those kinds of kids out of the system altogether.
Health and Environment
TRANSLATING CARE
K. Wright |
Two Brooklyn hospitals have agreed to provide beefed up langauge services following an attorney general’s office investigation.
Latino
Making Change: Union Schmooze
Hilary Russ |
City unions are launching a big new organizing campaign-not of workers, but their neighbors. Can the union make us all strong?
Make The Road
Making Change: Poverty 3.0
Steven Gnagni |
Take donated computers. Add free software. Stir gently with staff training, time-consuming customization and inevitable glitches.
Make The Road
Making Change: Organizing Drivers
Hilary Russ |
Union power may be fading, but grassroots worker centers are thriving. What if the two could join forces?
Manhattan
City Welfare Offices: The Sound of Silence
Elizabeth Olsson |
In one of the first free speech lawsuits that Mayor Bloomberg inherited from his predecessor, the new administration says it hopes to follow Giuliani’s lead and continue to limit the advocates it allows into the city’s welfare centers.
