City Councilmembers last week introduced a bill to encourage better education and training for New Yorkers in workfare, but its supporters worry that even if the bill does pass, it will fall in step with other mandated safeguards that the mayor has chosen not to enforce.
Touting expenses for private developers, Gov. Pataki produces a plan to return Governor’s Island to New York.
In the waning days of Mayor Giuliani’s regime, the city’s welfare office is rushing to consolidate the jobs of thousands of staff.
For the first time in years, the number of people on welfare in NYC increased last month.
The Giuliani administration is moving $25 million in federal money for AIDS housing into a services budget–and some observers say its more about politics than policy.
What caused the mayor to dismiss a fiery judge from the Bronx family court: two controversial incidents or her criticism of city policies?
Mayor Giuliani has kept $170 million from community groups to protest the City Council’s budget, and the effects are leading to a lawsuit.
Residents of a city-run homeless shelter in Brooklyn are working at the administrative offices to do data-entry, giving them access to confidential information.
Mayor Giuliani vetoed the last homeless rights bill the City Council passed, but a new version is on the way.
The City Council has passed a budget that funds all sorts of social services. But the Mayor is allowed to overrule those line items, and he just might.
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