On Friday, the Department of Homeless Services will officially terminate the Advantage program, which helps formerly homeless families pay rent in private apartments. The program is intended to provide homeless families with an initial push towards stability: for a period of one to two years, people enrolled in Advantage pay...

In September of 1994, a 40-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant named Manuel Aucaquizhpi was beaten to death by a group of neighborhood teenagers in Brooklyn after a confrontation in Dyker Heights Park. At the time, Walter Sinche, who is now the executive director of the Alianza Ecuatoriana Internacional...

According to Jessica Wisneski, Legislative and Campaign Director of Citizen Action of New York, New York State is in an ideal position to enact legislation for the public financing of statewide elections. And, given the crippling blow dealt to national campaign finance reform by Citizens United v. FEC,...