Homelessness
SURVEY SAYS: TELL US HOW YOU LIKE IT
City Limits |
Our annual call for comments.
Welfare
SUIT: ACS RULE HURTS MOMS, KIDS
Kathleen McGowan |
Today, if a woman contacts the city authorities to report being battered, she can very well lose her children on the grounds that she can’t protect them from the abuser. A new class action suit aims to change that.
Welfare
SEATS OF POWER
Annia Ciezadlo |
Fit for a king–or at least a CEO–the Herman Miller Aeron chair is a marvel of ergonomics and engineering. So of course the city’s welfare agency had to have several dozen.
Justice
RUDY MISFIRES ON GUNS
Alyssa Katz |
Mayor Giuliani castigated federal agencies for coming into Elian Gonzales’ home with guns drawn. He should have checked in his own backyard first.
The mayor pointed to his own police department as a paragon of how children should be removed from potentially dangerous situations. “New York City safely removes 12,000 children each year without a single gun drawn,” he pronounced.
Au contraire, say parents whose children have been taken from their homes and put in foster care. “He’s flat-out lying–there’s no other word for it,” said Mike Arsham, executive director of the Child Welfare Organizing Project.
Justice
THE PARENT TRAP
City Limits |
The city’s child welfare agency is about to go local, but will neighborhood offices get a visit from the welcome wagon?
Manhattan
WELFARE MAVEN EYES SENATE SEAT OF EX-LAX HEIR ROY GOODMAN
Kemba Johnson |
Pithy welfare advocate Liz Krueger throws her hat in the ring against long-term Republican State Senator Roy Goodman on Manhattan’s East Side. The GOP’s Senate majority may lie in the balance.
Welfare
INTERMEDIATE RESULTS
Kathleen McGowan |
Just how does welfare reform work? Mostly through a wide variety of job placement intermediaries, according to a new report.
The Disabled
WELFARE-TO-WRASSLE
Kathleen McGowan |
Rudy crows about how many welfare recipients are working, but he’s not talking about the fact that nearly as many are fighting with the city to get benefits restored.
Welfare
FUNDS GO AWOL AS CITY HIJACKS JOB TRAINING CASH
Kathleen McGowan |
The city’s welfare agency took $120 million to do job training two years ago, but they can’t prove they’ve made a difference. Now they’re scheming to take over a $615 training budget.
A few years ago, the city’s welfare agency got special permission from the federal government to take control of roughly $120 million worth of welfare-to-work funds. The welfare agency hasn’t managed to spend the money on time, and it won’t even tell the federal Department of Labor what it’s done with the cash.
Homelessness
THE FUNDS NOT OVER YET
Kathleen McGowan |
By torpedoing the process the city used to hire welfare-to-work crony Maximus, critics may have called into question a slew of upcoming consulting projects.
