An advocacy group says the Summer Youth Employment Program, a valuable but limited tool, ought to be improved and expanded to increase the connection between what city kids study in…
Some think Mayor Bill de Blasio is overseeing a return to the days of deep dependency. Others wonder if perhaps today’s welfare system is just doing a better job of…
Some hoped the Green Jobs/Green New York program would produce as many as 14,000, but it appears to have generated but a few hundred. People who worked with the initiative…
New York charted a new path to energy efficiency, using “on-bill financing” so low-income homeowners could get retrofits they couldn’t afford up front. But utility companies, lenders and ratings companies…
Some borrowers report positive experiences—and significant savings—under the Green Jobs/Green New York program. But others had a frustrating time with the loan program’s rules and processes.
A few years ago, from New York’s City Hall to the state house to the Obama administration, everyone was excited about the prospect of creating thousands of green jobs. The…
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