Last week, a team of lawyers for the poor appealed to the feds to stop illegal denial of welfare benefits to the disabled. Their findings shed a harsh light on…
The city’s former welfare czar Jason Turner has taken his thoughts on welfare reauthorization to Washington, where he was recently made a visiting fellow for the Heritage Foundation, a conservative…
The age of the computer has finally arrived at the city’s welfare system. The Human Resources Administration announced last week it will soon begin using a computer program to more…
Spanish-speaking residents of Bushwick claim no one at their local hospitals speaks their language, leaving them confused and, at times, without proper care. So a community group has asked the…
The city has four months to spend more than $60 million in federal job training money left over from the Giuliani administration before it loses it to Albany. This while…
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…
A day after Mayor Bloomberg, in his State of the City address, reminded City Council members to make severe cuts to their budgets, a few handfuls of those Council members…
In what could be Mayor Bloomberg’ s first comment on the Giuliani administration’s welfare policy, the new welfare commissioner has signaled she may back away from the old regime’s plan…
