Justice
BLOOMBERG HOPES CITY CAN WIN SOME WHILE LOSING SOME
City Limits |
The mayor’s latest financial plan may not be as across the board as he’s claimed–homeless services do better than most.
Welfare
TODDLERS TO STAY
K. Wright |
ACS is backing off an effort to save money by reducing the number of infants and toddlers in childcare.
Welfare
DAILY FAIR
M. Pacenza |
Welfare recipients battling against benefit cut-offs can now get free legal help all week.
City Hall
FREEZED OUT: AFTER MASS RETIRES, NO NEW HIRES
Jamie Katz and Jill Grossman |
Bloomberg’s hiring freeze could not come at a worse time: Just three weeks ago, thousands of city employees took the city up on its lucrative early retirement offer.
Economy
PAINFUL CONTRACTIONS
Matt Pacenza |
As part of a shift in the city’s workforce development policy, the Human Resource Administration will soon require that the job trainers it contracts with take on a lot more clients on public assistance. Since their city contracts are based on how long their clients keep a job, these companies fear that with so many hard-to-employ clients, their businesses may be in trouble.
Hunger
WARTIME WELFARE
Matt Pacenza |
The future of the federal welfare program is suddenly up in the air. Congress recently decided to postpone debate on the matter until after the fall elections, at which point the Republicans may take control of the Senate and ignore the current leading plan for welfare reform–which is more lenient on work requirements and more generous with child care support.
Bronx
WITH ONE STRIKE, KIDS IN DAY CARE MAY BE OUT
Lauren Johnston |
After nearly two years without a contract, teachers and support staff at hundreds of city-funded day care centers say they are poised to strike if City Hall doesn’t move soon, leaving thousands of low-income working parents wondering who will care for their kids.
Government
HOMELESS CHILDREN’S CRUSADE
Jill Grossman |
As a state Supreme Court judge deliberates the city’s request to temporarily take homeless children away from parents who take too long to find apartments, child welfare advocates brace themselves for a rise in foster care cases.
City Hall
FEDS AND ALBANY PLAN TO GIVE FOOD THE STAMP OF APPROVAL
Matt Pacenza |
Assistance is on the way for many of the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who qualify for food stamps but up to now haven’t gotten them because of long applications and strict requirements.
Manhattan
Pataki's Welfare Rent Deal: $342 a Month, Period
Matt Pacenza |
For the first time in 14 years, Albany officials have proposed boosting housing assistance for New Yorkers on welfare. But the new deal still may not be enough to pay the rent.
