HSBC has its eyes on Republic National for a monster banking merger, but activists are worried that the more neighborhood-friendly policies of Republic are about to end.
New York City’s 209,000 welfare families should see a substantial boost in their checks, thanks to a May court decision in a lawsuit that had been bouncing between state courts…
Connect the findings of a handful of new reports and you discover that in New York, the deck is stacked against getting off of welfare and into a job–and the…
It’s taken a while, but the city has quietly started to move some of the worst housing in the South Bronx into the hands of private and nonprofit housing groups.
A three-year-old deal to house formerly homeless tenants with moderate-income renters in a Park Slope building is still on the books–but bureaucratic rules have kept half the units open.
A recent report shows that kids are still sleeping on the floors of the city’s homeless shelter intake office–despite a new law prohibiting the practice.
The most lucrative welfare-to-work job, as former Giuliani advisor Richard Schwartz has learned, is finding work for other people. A new breed of employment brokers lands contracts by connecting government…