Since September 11, attendance at soup kitchens has jumped exponentially, a clear sign that workers one or two degrees removed from the Twin Towers are suffering blows from the collapse.
Albany hasn’t yet revoked the “bare bones” budget from last July, and New York State’s social service agencies are getting closer to slashing services and laying off staff.
With the city’s attention focused on the terrorist attacks, and with some South Asian and Arab immigrants still reeling from bias attacks waged against them over the last two weeks,…
While financial aid pours in to help workers whose jobs were based inside the Twin Towers, businesses one degree removed from the Trade Center are suffering alone: Last week, the…
To assist workers displaced by the World Trade Center collapse, the state Department of Labor has re-opened walk-in unemployment centers and applied for federal dollars to create jobs for the…
The community development divisions of four financial institutions in or close to the World Trade Center appear to have made it through the blast unscathed.
