Child Welfare
CHILD WELFARE WATCHDOG
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State Assembly passes bill that would create an Office of the Child Advocate to monitor kids in foster care and juvenile justice systems.
Hunger
HUNGRY FOR MORE
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City Council passes legislation to ease food stamp application; city unveils borough-wide hunger task forces.
TENANTS EMPOWERED
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Renters gain “right of first refusal” to purchase subsidized apartment buildings.
Housing and Homelessness
FIERCE RESISTANCE
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LGBT group launches Cop Watch program to improve interactions with police.
Welfare
CHILD CARE WITH STRINGS: STATE SEEKS TO LIMIT BENEFIT
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New regulation would force families seeking low-cost child care to pursue court-ordered child support.
Tortured Souls
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When undocumented immigrants die, many end up in the city’s potter’s field–but not if one Queens travel agent has any say
Lower East Side
Bad Medicine
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Illegal drug trading has found a new niche, in HIV and AIDS medications bought by Medicaid, then peddled on the street. The cost is high: millions of dollars in fraud, and a rapid decline in patients’ health.
Community Service Society of New York
Ending Workfare as We Know It?
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With 400,000 still on the rolls, New York City is taking a new approach to welfare reform’s second round. Could a gentler touch really put more of the city’s poor to work?
Gifford Miller
Battery Park City Recharged
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The 1960s promise to fund low-cost housing through Battery Park City languished for decades. Why the city finally made good on its pledge.
Bronx
Beyond Bloomberg’s Stadium Infatuation
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Sports arenas aren’t the mayor’s only plan for invigorating New York. Just take a look at how the city’s pursuing development in the outer boroughs.
