This summer, a college intern agreed to help a welfare recipient handle a couple of problems. Their travails have lessons to teach all of us about welfare reform. Excerpts from…
To 2,000 Brooklyn tenants, the federal government’s low-income housing tax-shelters have created a slumlord subsidy. After 25 years of living with rats, leaky roofs and gun battles, the residents finally…
The city’s environmental agency does an awful job of protecting the city’s water, according to a new report by Robert Kennedy’s Jr.’s Riverkeeper organization.
Tenant organizer Margarita Lopez won the Democratic primary for a City Council seat in part because of aggresive registration in the Lower East Side’s housing projects.
The ratio of students to teachers in the city’s public schools increased 11 percent between 1990 and 1996, despite a $1.1 billion hike in the amount of money spent on…
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