For all its well-documented struggles with delays, the program can also claim milestone achievements for hiring and training local workers, says one community coalition.
There’s new attention to problems diagnosing inmates at Rikers with mental illness. But what about people on the autism spectrum, with a low IQ or dealing with a learning disability?
The limited scope, curious criteria and advisory nature of those studies has some community advocates worried the city will miss the problems Mayor de Blasio’s zoning changes could cause.
‘People tend to have a stereotyped notion of who’s incarcerated and I think when they see people presenting their lives or being creative, they have to reconsider.’
A recent report found not only that unionization increased in the city over the 2012-2015 period, but that the share of private-sector workers who belonged to a union rose.
The city’s massive school-lunch program stopped serving frozen pizza in May because of a mold scare. After DOE allowed deliveries to proceed in August, a new complaint surfaced.
Sometimes the push to eat healthier can feel like a foreign force. One Brooklyn program trains Bed-Stuy residents to teach their neighbors a better way to eat.
