Advocates say new welfare rules would force the city to put more welfare recipients to work without adequate funding for child care.
Rent burden grows fastest for city’s poor.
With 400,000 still on the rolls, New York City is taking a new approach to welfare reform’s second round. Could a gentler touch really put more of the city’s poor to work?
NYCHA chair keeps a low profile on HUD budget cuts.
New York’s newest growth industry is a generation of young adults who are not in school and not employed. Most aren’t even looking for work. A changing economy is partly to blame–but so is government’s disinvestment in job training.
Broad coalition demands more affordable housing.
New study finds one in six city youth are “disconnected.”
Why did the citywide public housing residents organization fail to spend millions in federal aid?
When New York City’s unemployment went up, why poverty didn’t.
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