The Disabled
WORKFARE'S CLEAN SWEEP
Kemba Johnson |
People on welfare need to work, that’s the mantra over at the city’s welfare office. The next population targeted for workfare: victims of domestic violence and the HIV positive.
Bronx
WORKFARE PARENTS' DAY CARES
Kathleen McGowan |
Welfare mothers have a hard time finding child care for their kids when they get a workfare slot–the mayor’s new plan to add homeless families to the program is fraught with even more problems.
Bronx
NO JOB TOO BIG FOR NEW WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS
K. McGowan and J. Murphy |
Local job trainers are on the outs with the city’s welfare agency, replaced by a dozen national for-profit welfare-to-work companies, a few of which ring alarm bells with industry insiders.
Welfare
COURT SAYS CITY TOO QUICK TO PULL KIDS FROM PARENTS
Alyssa Katz |
New York’s child welfare agency routinely takes children from their parents before a judge has a chance to review the case. A new landmark decision says that’s not okay.
Unemployment
BUILDING A BETTER JOBS BILL
Jarrett Murphy |
Passing a jobs bill for welfare workers in the City Council is just the first step to actually seeing it implemented–vetos and ligigation are undoubtedly in any program’s future.
Justice
CONGRESS KEEPS IT GRANTS ON–JUST BARELY
Kemba Johnson and J. Murphy |
The Social Services Block Grant program sneaked past the House Approprations subcommittee, but the Senate might not be so kind.
Welfare
WEP-ING AND WAILING
Jarrett Murphy |
The City Council is on the verge of giving workforce workers a new system for airing grievances, with politics and vetos in the background.
Family Court
JUDGE DECIDES: FELON CAN ADOPT KIDS, TOO
Shalini Ahuja. |
New York State law prohibits anyone with a felony record from adopting children, but a Brooklyn Family Court judge declared last week that the law was too broad.
Bronx
NYC'S HIGH HOMES
Alyssa Katz |
A new study shows that living in New York isn’t cheap–and residents aren’t alone. Affordable housing is hard to find all over the country.
Justice
COURTS OK CASH FOR KIDS
Shalini Ahuja. |
A new court ruling allows children in foster care to sue the city if are mistreated or aren’t given “necessities” like essential counseling services.
