Facing higher fees for in-home day care services, the city has told day care providers to cut back on their youngest, and most expensive, clients, a change which could push thousands of toddlers out of care.
A year after a state court ordered Albany officials to offer Medicaid to all legal immigrants, a handful of immigrants are suing the state for the right to food stamps, too.
2002 was supposed to be the year in which lots of good stuff got done in Albany. Maybe next year.
Big prizes and prestigious honors: City Limits toots its own horn.
A transgender foster child has taken the city to court, again, in the hopes that she and teens like her one day will be allowed to dress as they like no matter what group home they live in.
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.
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.
Opponents of stricter work requirements for people on public assistance lost their biggest hope in Washington a couple of weeks ago when Senator Hillary Clinton endorsed a bill that, like President Bush’s proposal, calls for longer work weeks for welfare recipients.
Higher paying parks jobs may be available to New Yorkers on welfare for at least another year, as Bloomberg officials negotiate to keep the jobs program alive.
The Bloomberg administration has vowed to block a City Council effort to have education count towards the city’s work requirements for welfare.
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