Economy
INS AND OUTS: GROSS OUT, PASMANICK DEFECTION
City Limits |
Hirings and firings from the nonprofit and government worlds.
Bronx
SURVEY SAYS: HOMELESS FAMILIES STILL FLOORED
Kathleen McGowan |
A recent report shows that kids are still sleeping on the floors of the city’s homeless shelter intake office–despite a new law prohibiting the practice.
Hunger
DINNERS AND LOSERS
Kemba Johnson |
The need for food pantries and soup kitchens rose 36 percent in New York City last year, and programs can’t keep up with the demand.
Bronx
WELFARE COUNTER-DEVOLUTION
Kathleen McGowan |
Welfare advocates haven’t gotten anywhere with the city, so they’ve taken their pleas to Albany.
Welfare
TRAGIC END FOR BROOKLYN TEEN IN CITY'S CARE
City Limits |
When City Limits readers met Tiffany Stewart in the November 1998 issue, she was trying to get out of a city-run group home. Last month she was murdered.
Justice
TURNING THINGS AROUND
Alyssa Katz |
Welfare chief Jason Turner arrived at last week’s City Council hearing armed with some startling statistics. Maybe not for the reasons he intended, however.
Welfare
THE JIGGETTS IS UP
Kathleen McGowan |
For more than ten years, an odd legal precident provided a few hundred dollars a month toward rent for families on welfare. A new ruling says that money isn’t good enough.
Homelessness
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Kemba Johnson |
Que? A new study shows that most Spanish-speaking applicants for welfare had trouble communicating with their caseworkers, and a lawsuit follows.
Bronx
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN GOULD
Peggy Farber |
When the city announced the winners of its first-ever competetive selection process for foster care contracts, Edwin Gould Services for Children wasn’t on the list. And the city isn’t saying why.
Health and Environment
WELFARE SIDE EFFECTS
Kathleen McGowan |
The bad news: Moms who leave welfare for work often cannot take as much time to care for their sick kids. The worse news: Their children are more likely to have health problems.
