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

Bruce CoryMay 22, 2024jan2024-onwards

Along Newark’s Chemical Corridor, Old Injustices – and New Hopes

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

Bruce CoryMay 15, 2024jan2024-onwards

‘We Now Live in a Place Our Infrastructure Was Not Designed For.’

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

Bruce CoryMay 8, 2024jan2024-onwards

To Extend Transit’s Equalizing Reach, Expand NYC Fair Fares

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

Bruce CoryMay 1, 2024jan2024-onwards

Why Are Workplace Injuries and Fatalities On the Rise in New York?

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

Bruce CoryApril 24, 2024jan2024-onwards

The Harder They Fall: The Knicks And Their City in a Troubled Time

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.

Bruce CoryApril 17, 2024jan2024-onwards

Zoning Created a Housing Crisis. Can Zoning Also Fix It?

Adding new housing stabilizes rents and reduces homelessness.

Bruce CoryApril 10, 2024jan2024-onwards

Ending Stratified Education And Fostering Joy in Learning

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

Bruce CoryApril 3, 2024jan2024-onwards

How City and State Leaders Can Meet the Child Care Crisis

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

Bruce CoryMarch 27, 2024jan2024-onwards

It’s Time to Fix New York’s Paid Medical Leave Program

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

Bruce CoryMarch 20, 2024jan2024-onwards

Why Child Welfare Needs A Reckoning and Transformation

Necessary change also necessarily requires some painful realizations.

Bruce CoryMarch 13, 2024jan2024-onwards

Why ‘Rental Assistance Is Crucial’ to Make NYC Housing Affordable

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

Bruce CoryMarch 6, 2024jan2024-onwards

A ‘Shocker’ Housing Report, And What It Means for New Yorkers

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

Bruce CoryFebruary 28, 2024jan2024-onwards

The City Wants Lower Insurance Costs. It Needs a Basic Rethink.

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

Bruce CoryFebruary 21, 2024jan2024-onwards

Why the Working-Longer Consensus Doesn’t Work

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

Bruce CoryFebruary 7, 2024jan2024-onwards

It Was Supposed to Make Getting College Aid Simpler. It Hasn’t.

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

Bruce CoryJanuary 31, 2024jan2024-onwards

Not Enough Budget Sun in Albany, With Lingering Clouds at City Hall

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

Bruce CoryJanuary 24, 2024jan2024-onwards

The NY HEAT Act Would Keep Our Dollars, And Future, From Going Down the Gas Pipe

Albany seems poised to start weaning New York off reliance on natural gas.

Bruce CoryJanuary 17, 2024jan2024-onwards

Unemployment Is Coming Down – But Not as Much for Older Workers

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

Bruce CoryJanuary 10, 2024jan2024-onwards

The Difference We Make – Together

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

Bruce CoryDecember 20, 2023sept2023-onwards