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All NYC Public Middle and High Schools Will Now Have Sex-Ed

All NYC Public Middle and High Schools Will Now Have Sex-Ed

by Jorge Rivas on August 10 2011, 1:30PM

New York City Mayor Bloomberg launches sex-ed program that includes safe-sex lessons in NYC public schools.

Topics: Health

Shahzad Appears in Court after 2 Weeks, Becomes Canvas for Due Process Debate

by Seth Freed Wessler on May 19 2010, 9:57AM

Pakistani-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad, 30, (R) is pictured in a courtroom sketch during a brief federal court appearance May 18, 2010 in New York City. (Courtroom sketch by Christine Cornell/Getty Images) Faisal Shahzad, the man who allegedly attempted…

Topics: National Security

There’s an App For That: A Look at Income Demographics, Rents and the Lack of Affordable Housing in New York City

by Jorge Rivas on December 7 2009, 12:07PM

The Envisioning Development Toolkit provides beautiful infographics of the not-so-beautiful lack of affordable housing in New York City. The Toolkit is a set of teaching tools designed to help experts and community folks communicate. Advocates, policy wonks (not us!), community…

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Homophobia Trumps Anti-Poverty Mission of DC Archdiocese

by Guest Columnist on November 13 2009, 2:46PM

by Leigh Graham. Originally published at Change.org’s Poverty in America blog. I’m with Mike on this one: I’ve got to headline this unbelievably craven move by the Catholic Church to threaten its social services to Washington D.C.’s poor if the…

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