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Big Idea: Machine Dreams

David Jason Fischer | November 15, 2002

What if someone held an election without political parties and no one showed up?

City Lit: Summer in the City

David Jason Fischer | October 15, 2002

Heat Wave by Eric Klinenberg
University of Chicago Press, $27.50, 305 pages

NYC INC: Training Wreck

David Jason Fischer | April 15, 2002

The city’s desperate need for job training is finally getting some attention, but progress won’t come until the suits join bureaucrats and advocates at the table.

City Lit: Welfare As We Knew It

David Jason Fischer | March 1, 2002

A review of Hands to Work: The Stories of Three Families Racing the Welfare Clock by LynNell Hancock
William Morrow, 308 pages, $25.95.

Pushing Fast Jobs

David Jason Fischer | January 1, 2002

If new job training contracts run afoul of the law, the city’s haste to finally open job centers could lead to loss of federal job training funds.

CITY'S HASTE COULD MEAN WASTED JOB TRAINING FUNDS

David Jason Fischer | November 5, 2001

Long-delayed, new contracts to start up six new job training centers might run afoul of the law.

AS FEDS SLASH FUNDS, JOBS PROGRAMS ARE PUT ON NOTICE

David Jason Fischer | August 20, 2001

The Workforce Investment Act is supposed to help the unemployed and underemployed get on track to solid careers. Now Congress has gouged its budget–and pokey New York may be one of the biggest losers.

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Detour of Duty

David Jason Fischer | May 1, 2001

What could New York City’s long-awaited new job training network look like? Look no further than Rochester, where taking care of businesses is job one.