The City Council may have grabbed headlines with their push against predatory lending, but the real action is in Albany, where Joe Bruno and the Republicans have announced they’re backing a Senate bill. Will they end homeowner rip-offs, or just get points for pretending to?
Last week, a team of lawyers for the poor appealed to the feds to stop illegal denial of welfare benefits to the disabled. Their findings shed a harsh light on the city’s mandate to the chronically sick: shape up or ship off.
Governor George Pataki loves New York (City), he swears. So why has he spent two terms in office waging economic war on the boroughs? A new report from the Center for an Urban Future counts the cash and finds that when it comes to state funding, New York City is about $2 billion short.
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