Bronx
Harlem Program Scrutinized, Obama Initiative Cut
Helen Zelon |
Congress is contemplating a major reduction to President Obama’s flagship anti-poverty program, as its model—the Harlem Children’s Zone—faces new questions about results.
Bronx
Some See Racial Impact From Mass Transit Funding Crisis
Jarrett Murphy |
With most U.S. transit systems considering service cuts or fare hikes, some advocates are painting the push for better federal funding not in terms of what’s “green” but what’s black and white.
Bronx
The Great Escape
Helen Zelon |
A 10th-grade global studies class. The Children’s Zone’s ultimate goal is to get as many of Harlem’s youth through college as possible. The Promise Academies have yet to graduate a high school class, so it’s not yet known how many will accomplish that feat. Photo by: Alice Proujansky
“If You Hit 65 Percent of the Population, That’s the Tipping Point.” By: Helen Zelon
At the Sheraton conference—co-sponsored by the Harlem Children’s Zone and PolicyLink, a California-based research and advocacy nonprofit with ties to the Obama administration— Canada drapes a lanky arm across the lectern as he speaks, sliding the mic from its stand, and moves downstage to confide in the audience.
Economy
Promises To Keep: The Obama Poverty Plan
Rachel Dodakian |
The ‘Promise Neighborhoods’ plan has the policy world abuzz about the first major federal antipoverty effort in decades. But the effort has not yet been launched, and details are hard to come by.
National
MORE MARKETS, BETTER HEALTH?
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The city is looking at helping to bring supermarkets to areas with none.
Housing and Homelessness
IN THE ZONE
Cassi Feldman |
Broad coalition pushes for affordable housing requirement.
Center for an Urban Future
The Big Idea: Meet the New Boss
James DeFilippis |
Why worker-ownership is the ultimate strategy for keeping jobs in New York.
Citywide
Butler’s Last Stand
Deidre McFadyen |
Once respected as a firebrand union leader for public hospital workers, James Butler is facing a dramatic grassroots member rebellion as he nears 30 years on the job.
Citywide
Moving Day
Nora McCarthy |
Realizing that rent regulations aren’t enough to prevent evictions in the city’s newest hot spots, activists look for fresh strategies.
Policy Link
Growing In
Keith Kloor |
To its Harlem neighbors, P.S. 90 is just another abandoned monstrosity. But a group of community developers believes it holds answers to a pair of the era’s most vexing problems: urban underinvestment and suburban sprawl.
