A Multimillion-Dollar Payday, at the Carwash
Wage-theft cases are notoriously hard to prove, and they almost never pay out. But for some of the most marginalized laborers in the city, justice was served.
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The Bronx Zoo’s Loneliest Elephant
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In six of eight rural counties, panels of children’s attorneys have lost more than half their lawyers over the past decade.
An accidental experiment during COVID suggests too many children are removed to foster care
In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, some experts worried that children confined at home would be vulnerable to abuse.
Brookings Institution scholars wrote in April 2020 that COVID had created “a perfect storm” of isolation and economic stress that would “almost certainly lead to a sharp increase in unreported cases of child abuse and neglect,” and a New York Times op-ed headline the same month warned of a coming “child abuse epidemic.”
But the evidence suggests that in some parts of
Brookings Institution scholars wrote in April 2020 that COVID had created “a perfect storm” of isolation and economic stress that would “almost certainly lead to a sharp increase in unreported cases of child abuse and neglect,” and a New York Times op-ed headline the same month warned of a coming “child abuse epidemic.”
But the evidence suggests that in some parts of
How Game Theory Helped Improve New York City’s High School Application Process
Tuesday was the deadline for eighth graders in New York City to submit applications to secure a spot at one of 426 public high schools. After months of school tours and tests, auditions and interviews, 75,000 students have entrusted their choices to a computer program that will arrange their school assignments for the coming year. The weeks of research and deliberation will be reduced to a fraction of
Hochul, Plastics Industry and Green Groups Battle Over Recycling Proposal
Rather than try to improve Hochul’s proposal, some environmentalists want to scrap it.
This Simple Solution Keeps Kids in School, out of Handcuffs
Telling kids they can never make a mistake was at the root of the problem.
A plan tackling segregated middle schools in Brooklyn shows some patterns are hard to break
An ambitious project to mix things up yielded dramatic results in some schools, and smaller shifts in others.
The Proven Way to Keep More Innocent Teens From Confessing to Murder (and Why Police Won't Adopt It)
Standard interrogation, which includes badgering and lying to suspects until they confess, is psychological torture for the young and mentally frail. Now there's a better way.
A Bronx Tale
From Providence to Los Angeles and the Bronx, urban rivers that were polluted and even paved over are being restored.
Is Briana Waters a terrorist?
In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
