March/April 2005

Cover Story: The Young and the Jobless. One in five of the city's young adults are out of school and out of work. What can New York do about it? By Tracie McMillan. Other stories include Alyssa Katz on builders balking at state spending limits; Dan Bell on whether or not certain workers will be paid in accordance with the rising minimum wage; Xiaoqing Rong on whether Legal Services can trust its neighborhood offices to manage their own business; Cassi Feldman on the new job of city agencies in trying to piece families back together; Curtis Stephen on NYPD officers breaking their own regulations and not having policies to correct problems; Paul Moses on why Brooklyn should still mourn the demise of the Daily Eagle, even 50 years after its death; Annie Gross' book review of "Designing for the Homeless" by Sam Davis; and more.

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