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HIV Prevention, Treatment Hit By Local Funding Cuts

Numbers showing the city’s AIDS epidemic rages on worse than thought arrived in tandem with state cuts for AIDS-fighting measures. In a climate with plenty of needs and ever fewer…

Business Backers Rally Around Bloomberg Bid

Who are the financiers, developers and corporate titans lining up behind the mayor’s move to revoke term limits?

Justice

A Settlement That's 'Final, Permanent, Enforceable'

After pushing for the right of homeless families to shelter for a quarter-century, lawyer Steven Banks reflects on what it means to end the case.

Economy

U.P.K. HAS TOO MUCH OF THE WRONG MONEY

Many in the city want full days for 4-year-olds. Yet the state’s offering millions for half-day programs.

Economy Justice

LOWER TAXES BENEFIT YOUNGER WORKERS TOO

Why not expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to needy older teens and young adults?

Housing and Homelessness

FRIENDS MOURN 'SCHOLAR ACTIVIST'

Those whose lives were touched by NYU Prof. Walter Stafford remember him fondly following his death this month.

Economy Justice

Little Liberia May Lose A Major Piece of Itself

Liberians came to Staten Island seeking respite from civil war. Now the war is over, and immigration rules may force them to leave the lives they’ve built in New York.

Justice