Anti-Eviction Grants Axed

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In this year’s budget, the city is trying to simultaneously kill off two programs that help welfare recipients on the verge of eviction.

Asking For It

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Now that the feds have vowed to make sure welfare applicants get the benefits they’re entitled to, the Urban Justice Center plans to double-check.

Corner Stories

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For vendors, Flatbush Avenue is a business school of the streets, where dwindling customers, vigilant cops and cutthroat competition are all in a day’s work.

Asleep on the Job

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States are racing to deliver the benefits of a new federal job-training law to the unemployed. Except New York, that is, where efforts are stuck in the starting gate.

Staten Island

Hire Education

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For years, vocational education was the school system’s detention room. New attention to academic standards is changing that–but preparing students for work has dropped by the wayside.