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Facing a severe drop in donations after September 11th, some nonprofits are barely hanging on as they wait for the city to resume paying on its contracts.

ByJill Grossman 0Comments

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Oct 2001

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911, A FOOD EMERGENCY: SOUP KITCHENS ARE FLOODED

Since September 11, attendance at soup kitchens has jumped exponentially, a clear sign that workers one or two degrees removed from the Twin Towers are suffering blows from the collapse.

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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Oct 2001

Economy

PARTY HITS SNAGS WITHOUT LABOR

The Working Families Party was determined to make its mark in this year’s primary election. But on an election day delayed two weeks by the World Trade Center disaster, it…

ByJill Grossman 0Comments

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Sep 2001

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NO STATE AID YET FOR BUDGET VICTIMS

Albany hasn’t yet revoked the “bare bones” budget from last July, and New York State’s social service agencies are getting closer to slashing services and laying off staff.

ByMatt Pacenza 0Comments

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Sep 2001

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THIS WEEK'S GLOBAL POLITICS

With the city’s attention focused on the terrorist attacks, and with some South Asian and Arab immigrants still reeling from bias attacks waged against them over the last two weeks,…

ByAnnia Ciezadlo 0Comments

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Sep 2001

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DRIVEN TO DESPAIR

While financial aid pours in to help workers whose jobs were based inside the Twin Towers, businesses one degree removed from the Trade Center are suffering alone: Last week, the…

ByAnnia Ciezadlo 0Comments

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Sep 2001

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HARD AT WORK: STATE GIVES UNEMPLOYED SOME EXTRA HELP

To assist workers displaced by the World Trade Center collapse, the state Department of Labor has re-opened walk-in unemployment centers and applied for federal dollars to create jobs for the…

ByAnnia Ciezadlo 0Comments

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Sep 2001

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FROM THE NEIGHBORHOODS

Far from the World Trade Center in every sense of the term, Queen’s Guyanese community still felt the shock.

ByDan Hendrick 0Comments

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Sep 2001

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DISPATCHES FROM DOWNTOWN

The community development divisions of four financial institutions in or close to the World Trade Center appear to have made it through the blast unscathed.