As a state Supreme Court judge deliberates the city’s request to temporarily take homeless children away from parents who take too long to find apartments, child welfare advocates brace themselves…
From increasing funding for pre-kindergarten classes to rerouting billions in cash intended for the city’s poorest, the new state budget gets mixed reviews.
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.
