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Bike Plan Aims to Get Bronx Armory on Track
In 2009 a controversy over wages scuttled a plan to build a mall in the long-empty Kingsbridge Armory. Now there's a plan to host bike races there. Is a renovation project finally getting in gear?
Can Job Training Reduce Unemployment?
Governments are pouring money into job skills programs as a way of combating poverty. But what jobs are participants being prepared for?
The Casualties
"A lot of small businesses aren't getting the assistance they need to become more competitive."
The Survivors
"People want to shop local. There is a big movement around it, and people understand it."
Small Businesses On The Edge In Bay Ridge
In an excerpt from the City Limits magazine investigation of small businesses in New York, a look at the holdouts along increasingly chain-ganged 86th Street.
The Holdouts
"If it doesn't start doing something soon, I'm going to be out of business after 26 years."
BIDs These Days
The ups and downs of Business Improvement Districts
Where It Hurts
The costs of black unemployment
Now What?
The Struggle for a Solution
Coalition Battles Gov's Cuts
Pension Pressures Could
Worsen Nurse Shortage
Middle Class Blues
In A City Of Extremes
Churches 'Foster'
New Family Ties
Now That Caseworker Ratio
Is Good, Cut the Budget
Theme And Variations
On Deprivation And Dignity
State's Working Poor Face
Low Pay And High Costs
In Summertime, the
Street Is For Park-ing
The Changing Face
Of Foster Care In NYC
Vocational Education
Means Schools That Work
GAME CO.'S PLAYING TO WIN
BUT CITY'S A TOUGH MATCH
The Center for an Urban Future is a think tank organization that focuses on civic issues, criminal justice, and local New York politics. It is spearheaded by director Jonathan Bowles and consists of articles written by policy researchers that can connect with New York civic subjects.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
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Thursday, June 06, 2013
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Falling Off The Fiscal Cliff
Race, Opportunity and Sequestration: This report examines ten marquee programs for Americans struggling to make it into the middle-class.
State of the Chains 2012
The Center for an Urban Future's latest report, State of the Chains, 2012, finds that the number of chain stores in New York City increased for the fifth straight year, underscored by especially strong growth among retailers in the Bronx.
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City Limits celebrates the launch of its March 2011 issue: Defining Brooklyn.The 35th Anniversary Celebration
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The Tackling Poverty Series at Galapagos Art Space in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn.Tackling Poverty (Manhattan)
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