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Oct 2001
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Policies Affecting New York City's Low-Income Families
( Hugh O'Neill, Kathryn Garcia, Virginie Amerlynck, and Barbara B. Blum. This paper highlights major policy challenges that New York City's next mayor will face concerning the city's millions of low-income families. Challenges include, for example, the the New York City welfare recipients who could have thier welfare benefits terminated this December due to federal time limits; and the increasing number of child-only cases This report suggests important steps that the city, New York State, and the federal government can each take to meet these challenges and help more low-income families to meet their needs through work.
Full Text, Executive Summary.
Read the report on the NCCP web site. See also Recent Changes in New York Welfare and Work, Child Care, and Child Welfare.)
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