Bill Clinton
The Big Idea: Ailing Giant
Kai Wright |
Take a shaky health care system that grew too fast. Add recession. Stir in Dubya’s new deregulation plan. What do you get? Medicaid’s collapse.
Manhattan
DEPRESSED? HOLD ON TO YOUR BENEFITS
Marley Seaman |
Clinical depression is a fine excuse for missing public assistance appointments or deadlines, a panel of state judges has ruled.
The Disabled
WHAT COUNTS
K. Wright |
Federal rules clarify what “accountability” means for special needs students.
The Disabled
UNABLE TO LEAVE
K. Wright |
Disabled welfare recipients aren’t making it into work, and advocates say TANF rules are the problem.
The Disabled
SCHOOLS V. MEDICAID
K. Wright |
Some schools say the Bush administration wants to push them out of Medicaid.
Health and Environment
GOV STALLS KEY BILLS
Jill Grossman and Matt Pacenza |
With only hours to go before a stack of bills awaiting Governor Pataki’s signature expired, the fate of legislation meant to help some of the state’s poorest residents hung in the balance.
The Disabled
Home Remedies
Matt Pacenza |
The mentally ill can’t live in nursing homes. The fragile elderly can’t live in their own filth. There’s a city agency that’s supposed to help them all stay healthy and housed–and it may be New York’s most neglected bureaucratic backwater.
Education
RICHARD M. LASH: 1931-2002
Socheata Poeuv |
The longtime advocate for low-income New Yorkers with disabilities, and founder of Sinergia, has died. He was 71.
Community Service Society of New York
Housing Authority Vouches for More Affordable Homes
Helen Matatov |
With landlords still reluctant to rent to tenants who have federal housing vouchers, the city is trying out a new low-income housing policy: Give subsidies directly to developers.
David Dinkins
A Real Estate Bargain
Elizabeth Olsson |
A push for expanding supportive housing to stem a growing homeless crisis.
