More evictions. Greater homelessness. Sidelined affordable housing projects and public housing improvements. That's what to expect from the Congressional budget now approaching approval.

It's summertime, and the reading is meaty.

A crazy-quilt system needlessly sows anxiety and confusion for parents, child care providers, and early childhood education policymakers.

Some arguments for a democratically controlled, publicly chartered bank, established to serve the common good.

The good news: Benefits will go up from disgracefully low levels. The bad news: The system's underlying finances remain insecure and unfair.

Youthful grace, discipline, and self-discovery flourish with professional guidance and community encouragement.

A critical and reliable element of the nation's retirement system is being starved for resources and publicly demeaned.

An effort to rein in Medicaid spending is unintentionally saddling low-wage workers with either inadequate or unaffordable health insurance.

What's the outlook for federal higher education loans and scholarships? Bottom line: there's a lot to worry about.

There's a mysterious, but strong, subterranean connection between nurturing our gardens, and our democracy.

Strengthening grassroots groups that families trust can be the smart and proactive alternative to over-reliance on the child welfare system.

With economic storm clouds brewing, now's the time to repair a badly leaky system.

It's time to get serious about the success of the nation's largest organic waste collection program.

City officials want to use tax breaks to lure out-of-state employers to commercial buildings struggling with vacancies.

We take a hard look at Governor Hochul's proposed inflation refund credit.

Composting enriches the soil and enriches young lives, too.

First-hand recollections from the men and women who faced uncertainty and danger so that the rest of us might live.

Despite a legal right to counsel, over a third of New York City tenants appearing in housing court still don't have lawyers.

Life in one Rikers Island facility can seem like a citywide shoplifters' convention.

Emphasizing single-family zoning and protecting tenants' rights can get in the way of increasing the supply of housing.

A little more housing in every neighborhood is a start but only a start.

The motto: Care, custody, and control. Translation: I don't care, you're in custody, I'm in control.

Overwhelmed by news accounts of social division and distrust? A new book highlights individual disrupters creating an alternative narrative.

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

A Decameron of New York's Covid lockdown, and other tales of our time.

Titles that capture the moral, philosophical, and political challenges we face.

Welcome to the latest battle in New York's long, losing Medicaid wars.

It's long past time for a fuller public dialogue about the fair allocation of hospital resources across the city and state.

The long pandemic economic slump is behind us but income inequality is growing, too.

Five years after a landmark local law passed, private waste haulers still put up troubling safety numbers.

Voters face choices about how power is exercised that were framed via a rushed and shambolic process.

If a bustling working-class neighborhood is described as empty, is that a prelude to gentrification and displacement?

Bureaucratic hurdles notwithstanding, thousands of older newcomer students are determined to continue their disrupted educations.

A Supreme Court decision permitting penalties for sleeping and camping outdoors leads to legal confusion, hostility, and the potential for heightened human misery.

How Williamsburg's shopping district transformed as the neighborhood went upscale.

A veteran policymaker argues that reproductive freedom is only one of the key issues for women, nationally and locally.

The personal is political: Looking at decisions about reproductive choice, 50-plus years ago, and today.

Can New Yorkers' resilience and diversity counter a post-pandemic rise in poverty and inequality?

A new look at the roots of Brooklyn's Black communities shows why the past is never dead.

How did the college aid process run amok this year? Let us count the ways.

The nation's largest public school system is undertaking a massive makeover in literacy instruction.

More than 18 percent of Newark older teens and young adults aren't in school or working. That's roughly double the rate for New Jersey as a whole.

A picnic basketful of hot new titles from The New School community.

Asylum-seeking families still face a thicket of obstacles trying to get their kids into New York City schools. It doesn't have to be that hard.

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.