Economy Thin Gruel For Soup Kitchens Publicly funded help for the needy, from food assistance to job training, dries up further under the proposed budget.
Economy Feeling the Recession's Impact The mayor’s proposed city budget, which City Council just began examining, shows a nearly flat spending plan riddled with painful choices.
ARTS and CULTURE Dressing For Success An exhibit on how clothes make the worker is provocative but falls short of its promise.
Justice A Fight To Extend Parents' Rights Foster children with parents in prison are often put up for adoption. The State Senate takes up a bill aimed at slowing that practice.
Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Making Public Housing Public Ideas for weaving public housing back into the city’s social fabric.
Government Housing and Homelessness Justice NYCHA Council's Angry Over Housing, But That Doesn't Pay The Rent After receiving prized Section 8 vouchers, then losing them, about 1,000 ill-sheltered grantees are still without a housing plan.
Economy Learning For The Long Term Or A Job For Right Now? Groups providing education and training for high school dropouts say the city’s new rules for spending millions in Workforce Investment dollars won’t achieve the best outcomes.
Education Government Local Perspectives: Residents Weigh In A sampling of opinion from the streets of Harlem yields a positive view of the Children’s Zone.
Education Lesson Plans: A Teacher Speaks What’s it like teaching inside the school that’s become a national model for community improvement? A Promise Academy instructor explains.
ARTS and CULTURE Education Kids Who Can't Get Enough of School One low-income HCZ parent describes how the program has changed her family.
