Mayor Bloomberg did not mince words last week when he said everyone will have to make budget sacrifices this year. City Limits looks at what he says low-income New Yorkers…
An ongoing federal lawsuit filed to end the city’s practice of automatically removing kids from mothers who report abuse from their partners is expected to do more than that: A…
The state legislature and Governor Pataki agreed last week to spend $1.5 billion in surplus federal welfare dollars for the fiscal year ending next March, a move that sent sighs…
With a media-ready case against the city’s child welfare system, Marcia Robinson Lowry steps up to defend children who never should have been taken into foster care.
Despite pressure to increase the number of adoptions from the pool of children in foster care, the figures have actually dropped this year–and everyone has their own theory as to…
Mayor Giuliani castigated federal agencies for coming into Elian Gonzales’ home with guns drawn. He should have checked in his own backyard first.
The mayor pointed to his own police…
New York State has a long list of anti-poverty programs that are funded with federal welfare monies. The dirty little secret: through the miracle of accounting, hundreds of millions are…
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