GO FIGURE: BUDGET GROUP RETRACTS NY TAX FINDING
Paul Moses |
The Citizens Budget Commission says New Yorkers may not actually be the nation’s most heavily taxed.
Christine Quinn
TB CLINICS FACE CLOSURE DESPITE INCREASE IN CASES
Cassi Feldman |
City’s health department faces a difficult choice if mid-year budget cuts move forward.
MINIMUM, BUT NOT ENOUGH
K. Wright |
As the state’s poverty rate climbs and low-wage jobs expand, the minimum wage–$5.15 an hour—has less buying power than it has had since the 1940s.
Bronx
ASTHMA RATES
K. Wright |
Asthma hospitalization rates for kids are lower than they have been since the city started collecting the data in 1984.
Government
NO COMPLIANCE
K. Wright |
It will take at least another year before city schools even have a plan to comply with a years’ old state mandate for teaching sexual health.
IOM WANTS UNIVERSAL
K. Wright |
The Congressionally chartered Institute of Medicine said in a high-profile report yesterday that the nation must reach universal health care coverage by 2010.
GIVING TO THE RICH
K. Wright |
In the world of foundation giving, it’s all about the rich getting richer, or so says a study conducted by the Foundation Center and the Boston Globe.
