September/October 2004

Cover Story: Adios, Nueva York. As New York gets unbearably pricey, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans are heading for the hinterlands to find el sueno Americano. But it's not so easy to leave the old city behind, by Debbie Nathan. Other stories include Xiaqing Rong on nonprofits getting shortchanged in a record year for fundraising; Elizabeth Cady Brown on a potentially massive environmental tax break for the Times and other big developers; Cassi Feldman on the possible hidden costs behind new vouchers for poor New Yorkers to prevent homelessness; Mark Winston Griffith on Individual Development Accounts, the success stories it has spawned and its future; David Jason Fischer on how black male unemployment will be maintained unless jobs policy changes; Matt Pacenza's book review of "Predatory Bender: America in the Aughts: A Story of Subprime Finance" by Matthew Lee; and more.

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