CHINATOWN’S TROUBLES
K. Wright |
Almost a third of Chinatown residents lived below the poverty line as of the 2000 Census, compared to 21 percent of the city as a whole.
Latino
The Big Idea: Down for the (Re)count
Matthew Schuerman |
The Census counts prisoners in their cells, not their neighborhoods. Now a move is afoot to change their addresses.
City Lit: Bowling with Organizers
Gordon Mayer |
Real-world answers to academic worries about the breakdown of community.
Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice
By Edward T. Chambers with Michael A. Cowan
Continuum Press, 160 pages, $18.95
NYC Inc: Dressed to Skill
Aaron Fichtner and K. A. Dixon |
Why the city’s newest workforce authority is well suited to its job
Journey to the Golden Mountain
Amy Zimmer |
They come by plane, by boat, by shipping container: Chinese immigrants, smuggled into New York by a thriving underground network. Every year, thousands still risk border patrols, vicious “snakeheads” and criminal kingpins, to seek their fortune on the streets of the city.
Charity Busters
Geoffrey Gray |
Why Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s nonprofit crackdown may not be all it’s cracked up to be.
Amazing Grace
Kenneth J. Guest |
A Chinatown church offers Fuzhounese immigrants spiritual salvation–and begins to contemplate their earthly troubles.
Community Service Society of New York
The Jig(getts) Is Up
Matt Pacenza |
State welfare officials look to end rent supplements.
