With nearly one third of its residents drawing on disability benefits, Paterson, New Jersey, is the American city with the highest percentage of disabled residents. Many are former welfare recipients who stopped being covered by the program after welfare reform was enacted in 1996.
City Roundup
Alyssa Katz Editor of City Limits
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Bob Hardt Executive producer and political director, New York 1 on various city issues, including the rezoning in Brooklyn, domestic partnership legislation, Governors Island and firing of principals by the DOE
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Bob Hardt Executive producer and political director, New York 1 on various city issues, including the rezoning in Brooklyn, domestic partnership legislation, Governors Island and firing of principals by the DOE
Paterson, NJ: Disability City
Carolyn Feibel staff writer for the Herald-News, now at the Bergen Record on Paterson, NJ's ranking as the U.S. city with the highest proportion of disabled residents
The ABCs of AIDS Prevention
Greg Behrman Coordinator of the Council on Foreign Relations' roundtable on improving US global AIDS policy and author, The Invisible People: How the U. S. Has Slept through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time (The Free Press, 2004)
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Helen Epstein writes frequently about AIDS ...
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Helen Epstein writes frequently about AIDS ...
Open Phones
listeners tell us about crime in the subway and other subway stories.
The other island with a 212 area code
Development within our city limits is always contemptuous. In the last year the fate of the Far West Side, Downtown Brooklyn and the Atlantic Yards has ruffled a lot of feathers. But talk about development of Governors Island has been lost in the crowd of sports ...
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