Bloomberg’s hiring freeze could not come at a worse time: Just three weeks ago, thousands of city employees took the city up on its lucrative early retirement offer.
The Department of Health and Human Services was kind enough to hold a conference to teach the city’s nonprofit service providers how to access federal funds last week. There was just one catch: There aren’t many funds to be had.
Once your garbage cans hit the curb, where does your trash really go? In the November issue of City Limits, on newsstands now, Keith Kloor follows his daily refuse down the “garbage interstate” from Brooklyn, through the politics and propaganda behind the city’s garbage wars, to its final resting place in Pennsylvania.
Job market analyses reveal a perfect storm of unemployment, with relief running out and the private sector holding back.
The state’s mental health staff is playing hooky from its own mandatory training programs.
Mutual funds that consider the social impact of their investments stay competitive, even in tough times.
Post-9/11 small business assistance is targeting companies with fewer than ten employees.
The Council passed what advocates are calling the country’s most sweeping living wage bill—even after Gifford Miller diluted it in hopes of avoiding a veto.
Chelsea’s elected officials want to sink Target’s plan to dock a store-in-a-boat on the Hudson.
The national parties set a new record in their last chance to use soft money contributions.
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