Some expensive but successful job training programs for recent high school dropouts are losing their city contracts, creating concern among workforce advocates that the Bloomberg administration is focusing solely on…
Turns out City Hall’s bark is much worse than its bite. Despite months of Doomsday predictions, the city budget agreement reached last week ended up relatively pain-free, as most threatened…
In a last attempt to save programs they say their clients desperately need, some groups have found pools of cash they say the Bloomberg administration would be foolish not to…
From increasing funding for pre-kindergarten classes to rerouting billions in cash intended for the city’s poorest, the new state budget gets mixed reviews.
The homeless services group known for putting its clients to work plans to begin construction on a controversial shelter in Williamsburg immediately, putting the city one giant step closer to…
As the city’s shelter population grows, a group of advocates for the homeless last week called on the governor and mayor to make room in next year’s budget for cash…
In the city’s search for hotel rooms to house an overflow of homeless families in city shelters, the Department of Homeless Services has begun placing families in a building whose…
Mayor Bloomberg did not mince words last week when he said everyone will have to make budget sacrifices this year. City Limits looks at what he says low-income New Yorkers…
The city is still not providing adequate housing to homeless New Yorkers with AIDS, said a panel of judges last week, and the Bloomberg administration may soon have to pay.