When City Limits readers met Tiffany Stewart in the November 1998 issue, she was trying to get out of a city-run group home. Last month she was murdered.
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…
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.
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.
For vendors, Flatbush Avenue is a business school of the streets, where dwindling customers, vigilant cops and cutthroat competition are all in a day’s work.
Just when an economic resurgence is refueling Williamsburg manufacturing, new rivals prevent its expansion–by living in lofts instead of working in lofts.
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