Economy A Show of Hands: City Workers Resist Tracking As more agencies implement a controversial biometric system for city employees, new questions emerge about the costs, contractors and their ties to city government.
Economy FEWER LOCK-UPS, ENOUGH MONEY? As the state plans to close six juvenile correctional facilities and embrace community-based juvenile justice, some wonder who’ll pay for it.
Economy Fresh Greens Or Grandeur May Come To Fort Greene Come next month, the quietly decaying Admiral’s Row may round a bend toward some kind of redevelopment.
Economy Big Nonprofit Insurers Seek To Go For-Profit Higher rates for healthcare – and the city – are feared if HIP and GHI drop their nonprofit status.
Economy Government Justice Trying To Make It Safer To Do A Dangerous Job Too many construction workers are dying, say officials and industry leaders who are working for change.
Economy Justice Facilitating Fatherhood, From Brooklyn to 'Upstate' A new program attempts to shorten the distance between children and their dads behind bars.
Economy Government Raise Taxes, Slap A Fee, Anything To Urge Housing With tens of thousands of New Yorkers homeless or insecure in their housing, some housing activists are itching with impatience at vacant lots.
Economy Justice CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES: BEHIND THE DROPOUT RATE How many NYC youths actually graduate? This synopsis of CLI explains what goes into that calculation – and the challenge of raising the score.
Economy Day Care Realignments Spark Citywide Concern Employees, parents and advocates dispute city rationales for some public day care center closings.
Economy Justice Parents, Council Still Angry About School Grades Stakeholders vent, and the city’s Chief Accountability Officer parries, at a hearing on the controversial new Progress Reports.
