Welfare
Social Workers Make Their Case: We Need Raises, Too
Elizabeth Olsson |
After health care workers wrangled a raise out of Albany, social service employees are asking about one for themselves.
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.
Welfare
MR. TURNER GOES TO WASHINGTON
Jill Grossman |
The city’s former welfare czar Jason Turner has taken his thoughts on welfare reauthorization to Washington, where he was recently made a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank with close ties to the White House.
Hunger
FOOD PROGRAM COMES UP FOR STAMPS OF APPROVAL
Matt Pacenza |
More than $700 million in food stamp funding for New York State hangs in the balance this week, as federal lawmakers negotiate the federal farm bill.
Bronx
THE NEW COST CONSCIOUSNESS
Pat Sisson |
The age of the computer has finally arrived at the city’s welfare system. The Human Resources Administration announced last week it will soon begin using a computer program to more accurately calculate exactly what benefits its clients are eligible for.
Latino
TRANSLATION NEEDED
Pat Sisson |
Spanish-speaking residents of Bushwick claim no one at their local hospitals speaks their language, leaving them confused and, at times, without proper care. So a community group has asked the attorney general to investigate for civil rights violations.
Welfare
JOB DOLLARS: IN NEW YORK, IT’S WAIT AND SWITCH
Jill Grossman |
The city has four months to spend more than $60 million in federal job training money left over from the Giuliani administration before it loses it to Albany. This while the city’s welfare agency plans to shift ultimate responsibility to the Department of Employment.
Justice
BUDGET WATCH: WHAT NEW YORKERS STAND TO LOSE, AND KEEP
City Limits |
Mayor Bloomberg did not mince words last week when he said everyone will have to make budget sacrifices this year. City Limits looks at what he says low-income New Yorkers will have to do without.
Gifford Miller
RAINY DAY PEOPLE: COUNCIL MEMBERS FIND SOME CASH
Jill Grossman |
A day after Mayor Bloomberg, in his State of the City address, reminded City Council members to make severe cuts to their budgets, a few handfuls of those Council members suggested he pick deeper pockets–in Albany and Washington.
City Hall
BLOOMIE: MAY TEMPFORCE NOT BE WITH YOU?
Matt Pacenza |
In what could be Mayor Bloomberg’ s first comment on the Giuliani administration’s welfare policy, the new welfare commissioner has signaled she may back away from the old regime’s plan to hire a temp agency to place thousands of welfare recipients into city jobs.
