City Lit: Left Turn Signal
Andrew White |
A book review of The New Majority, edited by Stanley Greenberg and Theda Skocpol, Yale University Press, 1997, 298 pages, $30.
Welfare
RUDY'S WELFARE BOAST BELIED BY BOOST IN SSI CLAIMS
Andrew White |
The city’s drop in the welfare rolls has been almost entirely offset by increases in other sources of public assistance.
Bronx
THE CLOSED DOOR
Andrew White |
A new report says that the city uses a “guilty until proven innocent” attitude to turn away most families applying for homeless shelter.
New Grants for CDC'S
Andrew White |
More than $8 million in support grants made available to New York City’s community-based housing and development groups.
Community Service Society of New York
Sweet Victory
Andrew White |
To 2,000 Brooklyn tenants, the federal government’s low-income housing tax-shelters have created a slumlord subsidy. After 25 years of living with rats, leaky roofs and gun battles, the residents finally found a friend in Washington: the anti-Mafia RICO law.
City Hall
SCHOOL PRIORITIES IN REVERSE
Andrew White |
The ratio of students to teachers in the city’s public schools increased 11 percent between 1990 and 1996, despite a $1.1 billion hike in the amount of money spent on school staff, according to a report published last week by the Citizens Budget Commission, a business-backed watchdog group.
Manhattan
NEW GRANTS FOR CDC'S
Andrew White |
New York City community development corporations will soon be able to tap a new funding pool of more than $8 million.
Bronx
CUOMO'S CRACKDOWN: HUD COPS MOVING TO NYC HEADQUARTERS
Andrew White |
A new national center to fight mismanagement of federally funded low-income housing will be headquartered in New York City.
Homelessness
IS “WISCONSIN WORKS” WORKING?
Andrew White |
A new report gives a close look at Wisconsin’s much-admired welfare reform efforts.
Justice
FOSTER CARE GIANTS LOSE MILLIONS IN CITY CRACKDOWN
Andrew White |
In what the city says is a new era of oversight for foster care, several of the city’s largest nonprofit agencies have been put on probation for poor performance.
