Make The Road
TRANSLATION: SEE YOU IN COURT
Kathleen McGowan |
An coalition of advocates is taking the city to court over its unwillingness to translate welfare and food stamp assistance into other languages.
Child Welfare
BEYOND HUD.GOV: THE CITY LIMITS WEB RESOURCE GUIDE
City Limits |
A listing of useful websites.
Justice
STUDY FINDS KINSHIP SHIP-SHAPE
Shalini Ahuja |
A new study shows that foster children are much more likely to be safe with relatives than somebody unknown.
Bronx
FAMILY COURT ABOUT-FACE STUNS LAWYERS, GRANNY
Matthew Strozier |
A high-profile case turns against a grandmother’s hope to reconnect with her two grandchildren when a judge changes his mind.
Child Welfare
UNION BATTLES ACS REFORM
Jonathan Bowles |
The city’s child welfare agency says more than 300 workers in the system don’t pass muster, the union says it’s just a case of union-busting.
Manhattan
AS CHASE DUCKS OUT, EBT CARD HOLDERS MUST TAKE A HIKE
Amanda Bell |
Welfare payments and food stamps are supposedly easier to recieve with a new state-issued electronic card, but a spat between two banking giants has kept many ATMs off-limits.
Latino
THE OTHER CLINTON CAMPAIGN
Amanda Bell |
An organizing drive at the city’s Clinton welfare center hopes to change some caseworkers’ bad habits.
Homelessness
SURVEY SAYS: TELL US HOW YOU LIKE IT
City Limits |
This year’s annual fourth July 4th survery of our readership.
Welfare
NOT UP TO THE JOB
Kathleen McGowan |
Connect the findings of a handful of new reports and you discover that in New York, the deck is stacked against getting off of welfare and into a job–and the government isn’t doing too much about it.
