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Welfare Agency Job Boom: Quantity, Not Quality

Defying a severe recession and slow recovery, New York’s welfare department continues to find work for clients. But the jobs offer low wages and few benefits.

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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Help For Immigrant Youth

A green card is one of many benefits open to undocumented immigrant kids in foster care if only authorities would apply for them.

ByAbigail Kramer 0Comments

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Zelon Wins Education Prize

An article assessing philosophical and practical shifts at the DOE in recent years earns national recognition.

ByKaren Loew 0Comments

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Thin Gruel For Soup Kitchens

Publicly funded help for the needy, from food assistance to job training, dries up further under the proposed budget.

ByNeil deMause 0Comments

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1.5 Percent Less For Education

How will $113 million less be felt across the public school system? How are other programs for children faring, from prenatal care to juvenile justice?

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments

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Fewer Services For The Homeless

Mayor Bloomberg’s big goals to cut homelessness in half and greatly expand affordable housing are being reinterpreted in the next budget.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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A Fight To Extend Parents' Rights

Foster children with parents in prison are often put up for adoption. The State Senate takes up a bill aimed at slowing that practice.

ByAbigail Kramer 0Comments

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Housing and Homelessness NYCHA

Making Public Housing Public

Ideas for weaving public housing back into the city’s social fabric.

ByBendix Anderson 0Comments

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Government Housing and Homelessness Justice NYCHA

Council's Angry Over Housing, But That Doesn't Pay The Rent

After receiving prized Section 8 vouchers, then losing them, about 1,000 ill-sheltered grantees are still without a housing plan.

ByEileen Markey 0Comments

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ARTS and CULTURE Education

Kids Who Can't Get Enough of School

One low-income HCZ parent describes how the program has changed her family.

ByHelen Zelon 0Comments