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15 Years On, Still No Agreement on Welfare Reform’s Impact (City Limits)

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Neil deMause

A who’s who of welfare reform heavyweights met at NYU this morning to debate whether the 1996 law is working, 15 years on. Predictably, they couldn’t even agree on what “working” meant: Wednesday’s panel on the 15th anniversary of welfare … Continue reading →

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The two days the media notices poverty

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Neil deMause

I’m on FAIR’s radio show Counterspin this week, discussing the media frenzy around last week’s release of census data showing poverty is dramatically on the rise in the U.S. But what did the news stories leave out? Listen to Janine … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Media Crit, The Great Recession, Welfare and Poverty

Can Job Training Reduce Unemployment? (City Limits)

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Neil deMause

With unemployment still through the roof, are job training programs just preparing people for jobs that don’t exist? As the economy threatens to sink into a double-dip recession, pressure is growing for federal, state, and local governments to do something … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Labor, The Great Recession, Welfare and Poverty

Report: Young NYers Face Higher Barriers To Public Assistance (City Limits)

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Neil deMause

If you didn’t get enough on how tough it can be to apply for public benefits in New York City in my recent City Limits magazine story, here’s a new article on a report saying it’s doubly tough if you’re … Continue reading →

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For Low-Income Immigrants, Status Complicates Survival (City Limits)

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Neil deMause

And one more from the City Limits extravaganza (which is now optimized for you to read through start to finish online, beginning here). This is a companion piece that didn’t make the print magazine for space reasons, profiling a Hunter … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Immigration, Welfare and Poverty

Survival Guides — now complete, online!

Posted on July 12, 2011 by Neil deMause

I’m happy to report that contrary to what I said yesterday, my entire article profiling low-income New Yorkers and how they make ends meet is now available online via the City Limits website. You can find links to all six … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, The Great Recession, Welfare and Poverty

Survival Guides (City Limits)

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Neil deMause

And now it can be revealed: One of the big projects taking up much of my time this spring was a special issue of City Limits magazine on low-income New Yorkers, how they make ends meet, and how government policy … Continue reading →

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Documents Reveal Gaps In City Welfare Data (City Limits)

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Neil deMause

The Bloomberg Administration prides itself on basing its policies on hard data. But in the case of welfare policy, an analysis of new city documents (and conversations with city staffers) shows that it’s been picking and choosing which data to … Continue reading →

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What’s the most important U.S. program for lifting people out of poverty?

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Neil deMause

You may have noticed the recent spate of articles on the Census Bureau’s decision to replace the old “poverty line” with a spate of different alternative measures of poverty, in hopes of eventually settling on one that makes sense. I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in The Great Recession, Welfare and Poverty

Bloomberg’s Soda Ban: It Depends What You Mean By “Improve” (Village Voice/Runnin’ Scared)

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Neil deMause

More light, and murk, shed on the legality of Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed food-stamp soda ban: In this corner: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to grant New York City a two-year waiver to ban the … Continue reading →

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