The Big Idea: Making Headlines
Paul Moses |
The influential Citizens Budget Commission declares that New Yorkers are the most heavily taxed residents in the country. The finding made headlines–and it’s also not exactly the case.
City Lit: Inside and Out
Kai Wright |
Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett
By Jennifer Gonnerman
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 342 pages, $24
Reviewed by Kai Wright.
Center for an Urban Future
NYC Inc: Ditching Class
David Jason Fischer |
As long as half of all new teaching recruits leave the schools within the first five years, New York City will never have enough teachers. Here’s how to change that.
Latino
Police Line–Do Cross
Bob Roberts |
One Police Plaza brass don’t track the neighborhood drug trade. Anti-terror efforts are taking detectives off local cases. In the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct, it all adds up to one conclusion: Cops and the community have to find some way to work together.
Staten Island
Kicking the Habit
Nora McCarthy |
Four out of five kids in foster care have a parent with a drug problem. There is an alternative: a once-controversial program that keeps mothers and children together during treatment. But how far can New York City expand the work Mayor Giuliani tried to destroy?
Child Welfare
The Demon Seed That Wasn't
Maia Szalavitz |
You saw them on TV. Their tiny bodies and piteous cries were icons of the crack cocaine epidemic. But the medical profession has news for you: “Crack babies” were a myth.
On the Rocks
Geoffrey Gray |
On the street, virtually everything about the crack experience has changed. Most importantly: Consumers don’t buy it, and dealers don’t carry it.
Latino
Show Me the Money (and Some Creative ID)
Amy Zimmer and Xiaoqing Rong |
Homeland Security officials say they want better banking security, but financial institutions are paying no mind: Hungry to make money off of undocumented workers, banks are deciding for themselves who their customers are.
