Living in a homeless shelter was depressing and isolating; finding secure housing and caring relationships turned her life around.

In the Ironbound community, the homes of some 50,000 people border, and are interspersed with, industrial sites.

New York – reclassified a “humid sub-tropical” city – slogged through five “five-year storms” in 2023.

Working a minimum-wage job shouldn’t disqualify you from receiving discounted transit fares.

The state’s rate of on-the-job injuries is far higher than the nation’s – and it’s climbing fast.

It’s called “the city game.” And starting in the mid-1970s, it was a hard knocks life for the Knicks and for New York City.

Adding new housing stabilizes rents and reduces homelessness.

An exploration of the nation’s “billion-dollar problem” with standardized testing.

Emergency Covid relief funds eased pressure on families and child care providers. That’s not an option anymore. Now what?

The maximum benefit to workers hasn’t been changed since 1989. It’s $170 a week.

Necessary change also necessarily requires some painful realizations.

If rents covered only basic maintenance costs – and generated zero profits – they’d still be unaffordable for impoverished New Yorkers.

New York City’s housing market is getting tighter – and new construction alone won’t solve the affordability crunch.

Cut health insurance spending by 10 percent without imposing premiums or reducing benefits? Good luck with that.

Researchers stress the value of heeding the example and accepting the knowledge of a powerful collective voice.

America’s retirement policy rests on dangerous myths about working through old age. It’s time for sweeping change.

How a reform of the college aid application process that started with good intentions has, so far, fallen short.

A tale of two budgets, as State and City leaders reveal spending plans for the year ahead.

Older workers make up a growing share of the discouraged long-term unemployed who have given up actively hunting for work.

A year-end message from the executive director of the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School.

Tales of intimate heartbreak, sustaining love, sharing Covid lockdown with a lively parrot, and more.

Early childhood education and summer enrichment programs could be the biggest losers.

The meaning of fake hair, the long, strange trip of the Sun Ra Arkestra, a kids’ guide to knowing and cooking pasta, and more.

Successive rounds of budget cuts will hit the schools, even as the clock counts down on a costly requirement to reduce classroom sizes.

A new book of stunning photos captures the extraordinary everyday life of Queens.

Here’s a case for making communal living an answer to the city’s housing crunch and an antidote to a vacant commercial property doom loop.

Progress toward pay equity in the city has stalled in recent years. Here’s a strategy for moving things forward again.

Ending mandated reporting is an essential step toward creating trust with service providers and an alternative system to assist families, the author argues.

Lately, it’s been smooth sailing for New York City public schools – but the outlook is for some rough seas ahead.

The New School’s Urban Systems Lab launches an ambitious three-year project to democratize climate risk planning information on a global scale.

Citywide curbside collection is moving forward. Now let’s focus on participation, composting, and waste reduction.

Will a city of immigrants respond with anger or openness to a flood of newly arrived migrants?

We ask an eminent expert in the field of community mental health about handling the psychic challenges of being strangers in a strange land.

A new book, excerpted here, argues that reforming our existing child welfare system is futile, and that it must instead be eliminated completely.

Navigating the NYC school system isn’t easy for anyone – and the InsideSchools team has been working hands-on with the city’s newly arrived migrants. Here’s what they’ve learned.

Housing neglect is a serious problem. Gutting tenant protections isn’t the solution.

The first minimum pay standard in the nation for app-based deliveristas goes into effect July 12th.

Wherever you go this summer, slip one or more of these intriguing books in your bag.

City agencies are making a mistake by giving volunteers who've been welcoming arriving asylum seekers a cold shoulder.

Reading the uncertain economic tea leaves as City officials make spending decisions for the year ahead.

Pandemic conditions created a perfect rat storm. But New Yorkers can turn things around.

There’s a widening wage disparity with New York’s private hospitals – and an exodus of RNs from public hospitals.

Enrollment in charter schools is up; in other schools, it’s down. What’s the takeaway for education leaders?

How a strategy for economic growth and development can also make for a more equitable city.

A “teacher’s kid” talks about helping families find pathways to education equity for their children in the nation’s largest public school system.

The Fourth Amendment right to be secure in one’s home should apply in child welfare cases.

Crime fell dramatically when New York State started increasing the minimum wage and reducing income inequality. That wasn’t a coincidence.

We know what’s needed: Expanded school-based services. More clinics. Deeper parental involvement. And decent pay for frontline workers.

Community violence intervention programs work. But they’re hemmed in by a too-narrow focus.

CNYCA's seven-year statistical survey monitoring New York City's child welfare system

CNYCA's seven-year statistical survey monitoring New York City's child welfare system

An inner-city elementary school thrives as parents work for the common good.

Testimony Submitted to the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission Hearing on The Proposed Amendments to the Minimum Driver Payment Rules for High-Volume For-Hire Services

Testimony Submitted to the Labor and Public Employees Committee Connecticut General Assembly Hearing on An Act Concerning Rideshare and Delivery Driver Minimum Standards

Many workers, heavily concentrated in low-income industries, can’t get unemployment insurance. Here’s how to solve that problem.

City and State leaders want to make it easier to build. But other pieces of the housing puzzle may be more important.

Primarily low-wage workers often suffer from violations of wage standards and denial of benefits. Here’s what City government can do to protect them.

When something doesn’t work, stop doing it. That includes awarding pointless big-ticket tax breaks.

We need to do better meeting the needs of a shamefully underpaid profession.

New York State’s proposed tax and spending plan continues a decade of disinvestment in its people.

Testimony before the Joint Legislative Hearing Committee on 2023-24 Executive Budget Proposal: Human Services

It’s time to end policies that result in harsh and racially biased disruption and harassment of families living in poverty.

Why is health care in New York City so expensive? The high and rapidly growing cost of private hospital care is the prime cause.

Despite Social Security, millions of Americans face economic hardship once their work lives end. We need to strengthen our retirement system.

By almost every measure, basic housing maintenance is spiraling downward. The City has the tools to turn that around.

This year’s titles include a multi-generational family saga intersecting with environmental apocalypse, a re-imagined Jazz Age crime story, and a YA novel of the Jersey Shore written in verse.

The street art that helped change the direction of Chilean politics, the folk music revolution that helped change American life, and more.

Testimony before the Assembly Standing Committee on Labor Subcommittee on Emerging Workforce Assembly Hearing to Address the Persistent Increase in People Leaving the Workforce, Focusing on the Factors Contributing to This Trend and Potential Solutions and Workers and Affected Industries

Strengthening New York City’s zoning requirements for last-mile warehouses will better protect the health and safety of workers and nearby residents.