You saw them on TV. Their tiny bodies and piteous cries were icons of the crack cocaine epidemic. But the medical profession has news for you: “Crack babies” were a…
Four out of five kids in foster care have a parent with a drug problem. There is an alternative: a once-controversial program that keeps mothers and children together during treatment.…
One Police Plaza brass don’t track the neighborhood drug trade. Anti-terror efforts are taking detectives off local cases. In the Bronx’s 52nd Precinct, it all adds up to one conclusion:…
As long as half of all new teaching recruits leave the schools within the first five years, New York City will never have enough teachers. Here’s how to change that.
The influential Citizens Budget Commission declares that New Yorkers are the most heavily taxed residents in the country. The finding made headlines–and it’s also not exactly the case.