It was good news/bad news at last Thursday’s housing budget hearing, as Councilmembers learned the city’s housing agency is losing some money — and gaining other funds.
Following an outcry from youth advocates and City Council members, the city Department of Employment last week withdrew a controversial proposal for its summer youth employment program that could have…
Infants are more likely to live to be
toddlers today than they were a decade ago, but they’re also more likely to
live in poverty, according to a report released…
Already facing big competition for a small number of publicly-funded summer jobs, low-income teens’ prospects for employment when school lets out in June may be even worse than they thought…
Residents and merchants in Chinatown are waging a campaign to get more political power–by abandoning Soho to share a City Council district with the Lower East Side.
