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STATE CLOSES HOLE IN SAFETY NET

Larry Schwartztol | January 14, 2002

Families will not lose their rental subsidies when they reach their five-year limit on federal public assistance, the state welfare office announced last month. Not all of it, anyway.

INS AND OUTS

City Limits | January 7, 2002

A New Year and a new city administration, means new faces at every level from agency commissioners to nonprofit group administrators. City Limits gives the skinny on who’s in, and who’s out.

UNTAPPED CREDIT AT A TIME WHEN WORKERS NEED SOME

Matt Pacenza | January 7, 2002

A city advocacy group is launching a campaign that, come tax time, could add hundreds of millions to the pockets of low-income New Yorkers–without costing the city a penny.

STILL NO GET OUT OF JAIL HEALTH CARD

| December 17, 2001

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.

NOT AS CASH POOR

Matt Pacenza | December 10, 2001

The state has put on hold a debit card system that would have significantly restricted the buying options of welfare recipients in New York’s new Safety Net program.

CHILD CARE BUDGETS GO FROM FLUSH TO TIGHT OVERNIGHT

Matt Pacenza | December 3, 2001

After months of sitting on federal cash meant for creating new child care slots, the city’s budget for these programs is about to get very tight.

MOE BITTER BLUES: WELFARE CUTS FOR A SUFFERING CITY

Matt Pacenza | November 26, 2001

A proposed federal recession relief package will allow the state and city to spend $110 million less on poverty measures this year.

AND THE WINNERS ARE …

City Limits | November 12, 2001

As with any election, our local contests had clear winners–including some local issues and groups that got an unexpected boost from last Tuesday’s returns.

With a year left until the nation’s welfare law comes up for reauthorization, New York’s welfare commissioners argued for the right to limit spending on poverty-fighting programs at the first round of the feds’ listening tour last week.