The architecture of universal child care, a core campaign promise of Mayor Mamdani, is being set in New York City today. But for many child care providers, the current system doesn’t work well enough ...

Despite that, and even after more than nine months at City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s public school agenda remains in many respects a surprisingly blank slate. But the odds of that continuing seem ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul made a commitment to universal child care this year and took initial steps toward this bold objective in the State and City FY2027 budgets. That included ...

On September 22nd, New York City announced a groundbreaking $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash. The largest such resolution in city history, the case involved over 260,000 workers who were paid ...

Cities across the United States have come to recognize the many drawbacks of waste incinerators, which contaminate the air, soil, and water. Nevertheless, 72 municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerators ...

This November, homelessness will be on the ballot in Seattle. Voters will decide on “Compassion Seattle,” a referendum on a proposed City Charter amendment mandating a minimum level of funding for ...

There are many indications that Social Security benefits and funding will be major bones of contention between the Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives and the Biden Administration in ...

NYC’s Education Panel Now Flexes Its Muscles. City Hall: It’s Your Move. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s education agenda remains a mostly blank slate. A group once designed to be little more than rubber stamp ...

Virginia Vitzthum is the editor of the award-winning magazine Represent. Much of this posting is adapted from her remarks at the 2017 PASEsetter awards ceremony. NYC’s Education Panel Now Flexes Its ...

Our annual Watching the Numbers report monitors trends in the child protective system and our latest edition includes six years of data ending with City Fiscal Year 2024. In FY24, there were ...

Rebounding income tax collections and a healthy dose of Federal relief from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) will head off what last spring looked like certain New York State and City budget ...