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.
Facing $15 million in renovation, the managers of Chelsea’s McBurney YMCA are planning on selling the nearly 100-year-old facility, putting more than three dozen long-term tenants out of a home.
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.
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.
Fewer women in New York are using WIC coupons, and advocates have a list of reasons for the decline.
A lawsuit alleges that an Upper West Side landlord illegally turned a former single-room occupancy hotel into a pricey tourist destination.
In the current issue of City Limits–an examination of the right-wing politics and posse of welfare chief Jason Turner.
Mayor Giuliani vetoed the last homeless rights bill the City Council passed, but a new version is on the way.
The city’s drop in the welfare rolls has been almost entirely offset by increases in other sources of public assistance.
Hirings and firings in the nonprofit and government worlds.
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