Welfare chief Jason Turner arrived at last week’s City Council hearing armed with some startling statistics. Maybe not for the reasons he intended, however.
Closing Fresh Kills means finding some other way to handle the city’s tons and tons of garbage. The latest proposal, wrapping the trash in plastic, might be the secret to…
Food pantries and soup kitchens have been struggling to serve the growing number of welfare reform casualties. Now this largely volunteer system is picking up social services where government left…
The city’s child welfare agency is funneling borderline cases into an already overwhelmed Family Court system. The result is more kids are in foster care-and they’re staying in limbo longer.
At 13, Jonathan was violently unpredictable, regularly using angel dust and impossible for his mother or teachers to control. Now, after a three-year journey through mental health and drug treatment…
