Welfare
WWW.RICKvHIL.ORG
Amanda Bruscino |
A website forum provides policy-hungry voters a chance to ask the Senate candidates all the questions they can think up–and they might even get answers!
Bronx
MAYORAL HOPEFULS: IT'S THE HOUSING CRISIS, STUPID!
Kathleen McGowan |
The first event to bring together all the 2001 mayoral hopefuls was devoted to promises of a new and brighter day for low-cost housing in New York City.
Justice
SEE YOU IN COURT–OR IN THE PAPERS
Alyssa Katz |
With a media-ready case against the city’s child welfare system, Marcia Robinson Lowry steps up to defend children who never should have been taken into foster care.
Justice
TENANTS WILL STAY AT THE YMCA
Kathleen McGowan |
In a complex real estate deal, the YMCA unloads its white elephant on 23rd St. and achieves a New York miracle–nobody’s complaining.
Hunger
FOOD RIGHTS NOW
Kathleen McGowan |
Applicants and a new report by the federal government agree: New York City’s welfare offices go too far in denying poor people the chance to apply for food stamps.
Justice
ADOPTIONS FALL DESPITE BEST EFFORTS OF CITY, FEDS
Kathleen McGowan |
Despite pressure to increase the number of adoptions from the pool of children in foster care, the figures have actually dropped this year–and everyone has their own theory as to why.
Bronx
INS AND OUTS
City Limits |
A rundown of the leading candidates to head the city’s housing department–and other job jumping.
Economy
NEW WORKFORCE PROGRAMS ASLEEP ON THE JOB
Kathleen McGowan |
The feds frown on New York City’s lackadasical attitude toward implementing a new federal job-training program.
Justice
FOSTERING DISCORD
Sajan P. Kuriakos |
A harsh letter to the editor ends a potential relationship between the city’s Administration for Children Services and an parental advisory committee.
Bronx
NO MORE PENCILS, NO MORE DOCKED WELFARE CHECKS
Kathleen McGowan |
“Learnfare,” which punished parents on welfare when their kids missed school, will end after one year, as the state legislature opts not to extend the controversial program.
