Bronx
State Bag of Tricks
City Limits |
From increasing funding for pre-kindergarten classes to rerouting billions in cash intended for the city’s poorest, the new state budget gets mixed reviews.
The Disabled
Dead End Jobless
Annia Ciezadlo |
An automated phone system makes it easier for laid-off workers to get their unemployment checks–when it works.
Government
Support for the Homeless
Elizabeth Olsson |
As the city’s shelter population grows, a group of advocates for the homeless last week called on the governor and mayor to make room in next year’s budget for cash to build thousands of new supportive apartments for homeless New Yorkers with mental illness.
Manhattan
HOW TO PROMOTE POOR HEALTH?
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Last week, a team of lawyers for the poor appealed to the feds to stop illegal denial of welfare benefits to the disabled. Their findings shed a harsh light on the city’s mandate to the chronically sick: shape up or ship off.
Homelessness
STILL NO GET OUT OF JAIL HEALTH CARD
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The Giuliani administration is back in court facing charges that it’s all but ignored a directive to provide treatment and services to mentally ill inmates as they leave prison.
The Disabled
MISCALCULATION
City Limits |
Reassessing the cost for rent exemption to include people with disabilities, the Independent Budget Office found the bill will be a lot higher.
Government
STOPPED PAYMENT
Carlos Perkins |
A push to expand rent relief to New Yorkers with disabilities seemed to have tremendous support in Albany, until a plea from Mayor Rudy Giuliani stopped the bill in its tracks.
Community Service Society of New York
We’ve Got Issues
City Limits |
Eight years of Giuliani is enough to turn anyone into a would-be urban planner. But as the new slew of candidates takes on the city’s toughest choices, they may regret getting what they wished for.
Bronx
STATE PUT TO THE TEST
Matt Pacenza |
The state Department of Education might want to re-read the Americans with Disabilities Act, suggests an advocacy group which last week filed a complaint in federal court that charged the agency with forcing students with special needs to wait up to two years to take their GED test.
