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A Brooklyn councilman argues that there must be a better way to balance the city’s books than cutting $1.5 million from the program that provides beds to runaway and homeless…

ByLew Fidler 0Comments

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Dec 2010

Housing and Homelessness Justice

For Transgender Homeless, Choice Of Shelter Can Prevent Violence

A pilot policy to allow transgender people to choose between men’s and women’s shelters has reduced violence. But women’s shelters are safer for either identity.

ByDiana Scholl 2Comments

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Jul 2010

Uncategorized

Overhauling New York City Juvenile Justice

Two city agencies are working to reform the city’s juvenile justice system, partly by putting more troubled kids into community-based programs and counseling.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

06

Jul 2010

Justice

Child Welfare Changes Stir Hopes, Fears

Service providers like that the city is moving away from group homes and institutional foster care. But they wonder if the money and policies are in place to make the…

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

01

Jul 2010

Justice

Child Welfare Agency Calls Time-Out On Foster Funding

The Administration for Children’s Services is calling for a “do-over” of the process it undertook last year to implement a sea-change in child welfare policy.

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Economy Justice

Making Their Way

For Tasnim Huque, the past few months have been full of surprises. Her Muslim parents, who immigrated to New York City from India’s sprawling eastern city of Calcutta in the…

ByCurtis Stephen 0Comments

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Jun 2010

ARTS and CULTURE Economy Justice

Tough Love In The Big City

For young people born without that proverbial silver Spoon in their mouths, New York City has never been An easy place to grow up. It’s a tough love kind of…

ByE.R. Shipp 0Comments

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Jun 2010

Justice

Homelessness Strikes More NYC Children

The recession pushed an alarming number of New York City families, many of them with children, into homelessness in 2009, according to a new report by Citizen's Committee for Children.…

ByKelly Virella 0Comments

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May 2010

Justice

Key Court Rulings On Criminal Defense, Foster Care

The state’s high court allowed foster children to pursue claims that they were denied services and boosted a case challenging the state’s indigent defense system.