In December, the mayor’s office quietly approved almost $500 million worth of sensitive job training and job placement contracts, completely overhauling New York City’s welfare-to-work system.
Even with Election Day 2001 nearly two years away, individual donors and PACs are already pumping cash into the coffers of pols planning to run for mayor.
Social services giant Maximus is poised to move into New York, but in Wisconsin, reports of company discrimination and insider dealing are raising eyebrows.
A new plan to keep hundreds of apartments affordable in Harlem mixes federal housing cash with local nonprofit management to undo the damage from a mortgage insurance scam.