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Perspectives

Over the Brink, Over the Edge

The Impact of Unemployment and Joblessness on African-American Families.

Housing Boss: Big Deficits Remain

In a Q&A with City Limits, NYCHA general manager Michael Kelly says new financing deals have narrowed a gaping budget gap. Yet multimillion-dollar challenges remain.

'There Is No Science': Geoffrey Canada's Philosophy

A Q&A with Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO Geoffrey Canada.

Why Not Ease Up
On Stop and Frisk?

Critics of police policy say stopping half a million mostly innocent New Yorkers takes too steep a toll on freedom and dignity. With crime way down, now's the time to give the practice a rest.

Saving Public Housing
By Building Anew

New York's public housing has suffered years of federal divestment, putting its future viability in doubt. When a team of urban designers explored the Lower East Side projects' open spaces, they found potential for NYCHA to not merely survive, but thrive.

Mourning the Choices
That Might Have Been

One of the city's poverty fighters wishes the people she works for, and with, had a better chance to realize their potential.

What The High Line's
Success Can Teach Us

Savvy and serendipity played a big part in the realization of this long-awaited park. But the project's success contains lessons for other public efforts of every kind.

Counterproductive Cuts:
Budget Takes Us Backward

Human services nonprofits and their clients -- already a vulnerable group -- have already absorbed more than enough budget austerity.

Build The Strong Bones
Of A City Food System

Federal stimulus money is providing food stamp recipients more money to spend - on french fries or fresh veggies?

The Criminalization
Of Everyday Life

Are anyone's days entirely free of "offenses" that can get you arrested?

Budget Backfire: Cuts
On the Needy Won't Help

A raft of painful funding reductions is not the best way out of the state's budget crisis.

Who's Afraid Of
A Peaceful Biker?

A spontaneous evening goes awry, leaving skid marks on this cyclist's view of his city.

BALANCE THE BUDGET AND
AUGMENT THE SAFETY NET

A leading anti-poverty advocate insists that poor and low-income working families not bear the brunt of budget cuts.

Low Wages, High Wages
And Nothing In-Between?

America must correct its vast earnings gap, or the 'working poor' will continue to include far too many of us.





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CONVERSATIONS/OPINONS

City Should Be Cautious About Synthetic Turf

By Melissa Mark-Viverito

City Should Be Cautious About Synthetic Turf

Our athletic fields must be safe and must not adversely impact the health of those using them, says the City Councilmember who chairs the Council's Parks and Recreation Committee.

Not All 9-11 Families Oppose The Mosque

By Colleen Kelly

Not All 9-11 Families Oppose The Mosque

In the arguments over the "Ground Zero mosque"—which is not just a mosque and not at Ground Zero—the feelings of 9-11 families are not monolithic.

Koch On Mosque: Let's Be Calm Now

By Ed Koch

Koch On Mosque: Let's Be Calm Now

On a day when Newt Gingrich compared the people planning a downtown mosque to Nazis, former Mayor Ed Koch said Americans could some day regret the furor over the project.

Killing the Message?

By Mustafa Sullivan

Killing the Message?

Hip-hop music has a powerful effect on New York's youth--and an almost entirely negative one, say three young writers, who think that impact could, and should, change.

Obama Must Make Youth A Priority

By Linda Harris

In this op-ed, an advocate says a multibillion-dollar federal initiative is needed to bring disconnected youth back into the mainstream—not just for their sake, but for ours, too.

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