City Councilmembers last week introduced a bill to encourage better education and training for New Yorkers in workfare, but its supporters worry that even if the bill does pass, it will fall in step with other mandated safeguards that the mayor has chosen not to enforce.
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In the waning days of Mayor Giuliani’s regime, the city’s welfare office is rushing to consolidate the jobs of thousands of staff.
The Department for the Aging has decided advocacy work was not what the city had in mind when it funded the Citizens Advice Bureau in the Bronx, and thousands of seniors may soon lose their social services.
The city may need to book a few more months at the swank midtown Sofitel hotel since its call for AIDS service providers to create more housing for their clients has so far fallen flat.
Thousands of New Yorkers on public assistance have found jobs under the city’s welfare-to-work initiative, but pressure to hurry people off of welfare is forcing some job trainers either to place their clients into work they’re not ready for or face a financial crunch.
The Democratic mayoral candidates weigh in on welfare for the first time on the campaign trail, and if the winner sticks to his word, things could soon look a lot different.
In its own interpretation of state law, the Human Resources Administration helps college students on family assistance juggle school schedules and workfare placements, but tells single adults and voc ed. students, you’re on your own.
The Human Resources Administration wants the agencies that provide substance abuse treatment to welfare recipients to report on their clients progress–and to adhere to a strict timetable for recovery.
The architect of one of the first firms to profit from the welfare-to-work boom leaves his company to take the helm of the Daily News editorial page.
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