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THE JIGGETTS IS UP

For more than ten years, an odd legal precident provided a few hundred dollars a month toward rent for families on welfare. A new ruling says that money isn’t good…

YOUNG AND RESTLESS

Hundreds of kids are planning a protest of the mayor’s proposed deep cuts to the city’s budget for youth and community development.

LOST IN TRANSLATION

Que? A new study shows that most Spanish-speaking applicants for welfare had trouble communicating with their caseworkers, and a lawsuit follows.

City Lit: Reformulaic

A book review of Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, by Frederick M. Hess, Brookings Institution Press, 1999, 228 pages, $39.95.

Hire Education

For years, vocational education was the school system’s detention room. New attention to academic standards is changing that–but preparing students for work has dropped by the wayside.

Asleep on the Job

States are racing to deliver the benefits of a new federal job-training law to the unemployed. Except New York, that is, where efforts are stuck in the starting gate.

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