As part of a shift in the city’s workforce development policy, the Human Resource Administration will soon require that the job trainers it contracts with take on a lot more…
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…
A decade after local residents founded the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, the bank for the poor last week was declared bankrupt and taken over by a Long Island-based financial…
Mayor Bloomberg has said he’d like to see some affordable housing built as part of downtown’s redevelopment, but his policy for making that happen may have some holes–particularly since it…
The solution to building more affordable housing, say both Democratic gubernatorial candidates, is state pension funds. Last week Carl McCall went a step further and vowed to pursue the federal…
Some expensive but successful job training programs for recent high school dropouts are losing their city contracts, creating concern among workforce advocates that the Bloomberg administration is focusing solely on…
Residents of a massive federal housing project in Mott Haven will finally have a new landlord–themselves–after winning federal approval for what’s likely the biggest tenant takeover of a housing project…
