Health and Environment
Welfare Agency Job Boom: Quantity, Not Quality
Neil deMause |
Defying a severe recession and slow recovery, New York’s welfare department continues to find work for clients. But the jobs offer low wages and few benefits.
Justice
Help For Immigrant Youth
Abigail Kramer |
A green card is one of many benefits open to undocumented immigrant kids in foster care if only authorities would apply for them.
Education
Zelon Wins Education Prize
Karen Loew |
An article assessing philosophical and practical shifts at the DOE in recent years earns national recognition.
Economy
Thin Gruel For Soup Kitchens
Neil deMause |
Publicly funded help for the needy, from food assistance to job training, dries up further under the proposed budget.
Child Welfare
1.5 Percent Less For Education
Helen Zelon |
How will $113 million less be felt across the public school system? How are other programs for children faring, from prenatal care to juvenile justice?
Bronx
Fewer Services For The Homeless
Eileen Markey |
Mayor Bloomberg’s big goals to cut homelessness in half and greatly expand affordable housing are being reinterpreted in the next budget.
Justice
A Fight To Extend Parents' Rights
Abigail Kramer |
Foster children with parents in prison are often put up for adoption. The State Senate takes up a bill aimed at slowing that practice.
Health and Environment
Making Public Housing Public
Bendix Anderson |
Ideas for weaving public housing back into the city’s social fabric.
Bronx
Council's Angry Over Housing, But That Doesn't Pay The Rent
Eileen Markey |
After receiving prized Section 8 vouchers, then losing them, about 1,000 ill-sheltered grantees are still without a housing plan.
Bronx
The Great Escape
Helen Zelon |
A 10th-grade global studies class. The Children’s Zone’s ultimate goal is to get as many of Harlem’s youth through college as possible. The Promise Academies have yet to graduate a high school class, so it’s not yet known how many will accomplish that feat. Photo by: Alice Proujansky
“If You Hit 65 Percent of the Population, That’s the Tipping Point.” By: Helen Zelon
At the Sheraton conference—co-sponsored by the Harlem Children’s Zone and PolicyLink, a California-based research and advocacy nonprofit with ties to the Obama administration— Canada drapes a lanky arm across the lectern as he speaks, sliding the mic from its stand, and moves downstage to confide in the audience.
