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Budget Cut Avoided, But Children's Services Still Show Strain
There are reports that some parents are having trouble getting child welfare services because a botched contract award and budget threats last year led providers to scale back.
The Poor Have Numbers. Do They Count?
The number of low-income New Yorkers is a matter of statistics. Answering deeper questions about poverty demands drilling down deep into the lives of individual people, a few of whose stories are presented in this month's issue of City Limits.
One Woman's Plan to Beat Poverty
Beverly Davis has a full-time job, a family she supports and a college course to complete. She has plans to become a police officer. Public benefits are essential to her move from low-wage work to economic independence.
Obama Anti-Poverty Programs Begin to Take Shape
The president's neighborhood-based anti-poverty initiatives will soon move into a second stage. But in an era of budget-cutting, Promise Neighborhoods and Choice Neighborhoods face a steep political challenge.
AIDS Patients Battle City Bureaucracy
Because of budget cuts, some HASA clients and HIV/AIDS advocates say, HASA is struggling to provide housing services to its clients, including rent subsidies that keep them from being evicted.
No Sign Of Mayor's Promised Antipoverty 'Zones'
A year ago the mayor said he'd launch Harlem Children's Zone-style programs in Brooklyn and the Bronx. But as the Obama administration funds a similar initiative, the city has yet to move.
Recession Drove 6 Million Into Poverty
The national poverty rate jumped to over 14 percent. But there’s evidence that the economic downturn hasn’t increased poverty as much as comparable recessions.
A Poster Child For Poverty In Harlem Speaks Back
John Yant and his family were featured in the 1969 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit "Harlem on My Mind." Here he describes how it feels to become a representation of poverty.
Tough Love In The Big City
Kids in New York have often had a lot to fear. So how’d we end up afraid of them?
Making Their Way
Immigrant Women Straddle Cultural Chasms
Promises To Keep:
The Obama Poverty Plan
Poverty Fighters Get
Their Own Consultancy
One Idealist's Progress
In Fighting Poverty Online
Impact Unknown: The CEO's
Poverty-Fighting Efforts
TOWN HALL MEETINGS HEAR
POVERTY-FIGHTING DEMANDS
On the Poverty Of Women:
In NY State, It's Increased
CITY LIMITS INVESTIGATES:
Today's Anti-Poverty Fight
NYC To Lead Country In
Remaking Poverty Gauge
Q&A: NYC's New Take On Poverty
INSIDE THE ANTI-POVERTY PLAN
Poverty
The complex and amorphous nature of poverty in New York City has lent itself to a wide array of uniquely designed programs and organizations focused on alleviating the conditions that classify a person as poor. City Limits has never failed to shy away from examining the holes in the city’s safety net, and our coverage often highlights the effect of government practices and other trends on many different subsets of the city’s poor.
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Remember Poverty? Anyone? Anyone? - Neil deMause
Watch a video interview with Neil deMause, author of our July issue looking at the complex stories behind alarming statistics on poverty in New York City and the United States.
Ex-IMF Chief Bailed Out. Thousands Aren't. - Jarrett Murphy
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is off Rikers Island. Most of the inmates he left behind haven't been convicted of anything. They're awaiting trial. And most are waiting behind bars because they can't afford to be free.
CONVERSATIONS/OPINONS
Homelessness: It's About Race, Not Just Poverty
A new report finds black families are seven times more likely than whites to end up in the shelter system. For a minority group that's faced official and informal housing discrimination, poverty is only part of the explanation.
MULTIMEDIA
FDNY report on fatal fire, December 31, 1995
The fatal fire investigation report on the death of Lieutenant John M. Clancy of Battalion 50 at 149-06 97th Avenue, Queens.
PHOTO SLIDESHOWS
Beyond CityTime
An Investigation of Private Consultants in the Bloomberg Administration
Poverty, Frozen in Time
An exhibition of photographs by Jacob Riis and contemporaries, including some images not seen in public for nearly 100 years.
