The city’s welfare agency isn’t helping the jobless nearly enough, charges a low-income advocacy group – but others claim this study isn’t thorough enough to judge.
A year ago, the New York City Housing Authority agreed to offer public housing residents apprenticeships on agency construction sites. Now the work is set to begin–but the jobs have…
Passing a jobs bill for welfare workers in the City Council is just the first step to actually seeing it implemented–vetos and ligigation are undoubtedly in any program’s future.
Residents of a city-run homeless shelter in Brooklyn are working at the administrative offices to do data-entry, giving them access to confidential information.
For decades, the city has had no plan for long-term job growth other than a vague hope that big business would carry the day. The Center for an Urban Future…
