Center for an Urban Future
Big Idea: Work Details
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The problem for low-wage earners in New York isn’t the lack of government assistance. It’s how to get to it.
City Lit: Emotional Ecosystems
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It, by Mindy Thompson Fullilove.
Bronx
Waste Not
Tess Taylor |
For years the outer boroughs have been Manhattan’s garbagemen. Mayor Bloomberg says it’s time for that to change–and his Upper East Side neighbors are trashing his plans.
Staten Island
Speed Trap
Jonathan Bowles |
Reliable high speed Internet access is becoming critical to the success of small businesses. But decrepit technology and a lack of infrastructure investment are keeping thousands of them logged off.
Occupational Therapy
Rachel Blustain |
With an emphasis on self-reflection, psychologists at a Bronx homeless shelter are pioneering a new way to coax residents into jobs.
Government
Barbaro at the Gates
Ruth Ford |
A working-class hero runs to oust a conservative congressman.
