Case manager Javier Osorio visits Grace Moore in her Brooklyn apartment.
Once again, New York City’s senior centers avoided a disastrous budget cut this year. But the passing of that threat masks a subtler one: the gradual erosion of the once-proud array of services New York City offers its elderly.
Lakeisha Williams has a bank account. That doesn’t mean she always uses it. The home health aide from West Harlem sometimes can’t wait the few days it takes for her paycheck to clear. So she sacrifices about $20 to a check casher and gets her money immediately. “I ain’t got no problem with check cashers,” Williams says.Check-cashing stores have for years been easy targets for advocates of economic justice, who have argued that the industry provides an expensive service and takes advantage of people who can ill afford it.
Almost three quarters of the 2,422 women in New York state prisons are mothers. In Part 3 of a series, several moms take a crucial step toward going home.
Almost three quarters of the 2,422 women in New York state prisons are mothers. In part 2 of our series on children visiting their moms inside, families are briefly reunited.
Almost three quarters of the 2,422 women in New York state prisons are mothers. In part 1 of a three-part series, we follow one group of children as they travel nearly 400 miles to meet their moms on the inside.
The lottery is more important than ever to state finances. But counselors and a lawmaker want more done to protect those who don’t have “a little bit of luck.”
To one boy in Bed-Stuy, a program for children of the incarcerated makes a difference.
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