Last year, city social workers entered homes nearly 56,000 times to investigate child abuse and neglect allegations–but only rarely could they give families more than trouble. Can we make New York’s kids safer by turning troubled parents into partners?
A closer look at the number of investigated reports of child neglect, and how many actually land kids in foster care.
The private company that handles New York City’s billion-dollar property tax collection business tried to make a deal with a landlord–just as he was in court for mismanaging his buildings.
Dumping garbage is getting a lot more expensive, while recycling is getting more and more affordable. How the Department of Sanitation’s bad math is throwing millions of dollars into dumps.
Don’t you dare call it incineration, but it may be time for a sizzling trash solution.
Beware the Bush administration’s plan to block grant federal foster care money.
Reckoning with Homelessness, by Kim Hopper. Reviewed by Bob Roberts.
A new wave of literacy teachers is teaching immigrants not just to read and write—but to be hellraising citizens, too.
Government should help employers hang on to their workers during tough times–it’s certainly cheaper than unemployment checks.
The New York City Housing Authority finally commits to hiring its own residents, but a coalition of tenants, unions and community groups finds that a working partnership is the hardest thing to build.
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