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People on welfare need to work, that’s the mantra over at the city’s welfare office. The next population targeted for workfare: victims of domestic violence and the HIV positive.

ByKemba Johnson 0Comments

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Nov 1999

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WORKFARE PARENTS' DAY CARES

Welfare mothers have a hard time finding child care for their kids when they get a workfare slot–the mayor’s new plan to add homeless families to the program is fraught…

ByKathleen McGowan 0Comments

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Nov 1999

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NO JOB TOO BIG FOR NEW WELFARE-TO-WORK GRANTS

Local job trainers are on the outs with the city’s welfare agency, replaced by a dozen national for-profit welfare-to-work companies, a few of which ring alarm bells with industry insiders.

ByK. McGowan and J. Murphy 0Comments

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Oct 1999

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COURT SAYS CITY TOO QUICK TO PULL KIDS FROM PARENTS

New York’s child welfare agency routinely takes children from their parents before a judge has a chance to review the case. A new landmark decision says that’s not okay.

ByAlyssa Katz 0Comments

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Sep 1999

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BUILDING A BETTER JOBS BILL

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.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 1999

Justice

CONGRESS KEEPS IT GRANTS ON–JUST BARELY

The Social Services Block Grant program sneaked past the House Approprations subcommittee, but the Senate might not be so kind.

ByKemba Johnson and J. Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 1999

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WEP-ING AND WAILING

The City Council is on the verge of giving workforce workers a new system for airing grievances, with politics and vetos in the background.

ByJarrett Murphy 0Comments

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Sep 1999

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JUDGE DECIDES: FELON CAN ADOPT KIDS, TOO

New York State law prohibits anyone with a felony record from adopting children, but a Brooklyn Family Court judge declared last week that the law was too broad.