Melissa Mark-Viverito

As New Yorkers face the grim prospect this spring of massive budget cuts proposed by Mayor Bloomberg, a new report calls our attention to one of the populations most vulnerable to the budget axe: poor children.

Childhood poverty has increased significantly during the recent recession, according to a

Last month, the President announced that he would expedite approval for the Southern part of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which extends from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Texas Gulf Coast.

This appears to be an unconscionable reversal of the Administration's stance to stop construction on the pipeline out of environmental...

Freddy Castiblanco, owner of Terraza 7 Live Music in Elmhurst, NY and member of the steering committee of the Main Street Alliance, is the co-author of this opinion.

Two years ago last week, the Supreme Court handed down the Citizens United decision, paving the way for unlimited corporate spending...

Last week, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU) announced that a deal had been struck, amending New York City's living wage law to include more city residents. This is a meaningful step forward in the journey to establish...

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has a new funding proposal for NYC public housing: ad space on the buildings. According to the NY Daily News, NYCHA plans to sell public space to advertisers in order to raise revenue for NYCHA developments. Housing Authority officials promise that these adverts...

Last week, the NY Times reported that the Department of Justice had uncovered appalling corruption within the Puerto Rican Police Department (PRPD). The offenses included unreasonable force, unconstitutional stops, searches, and seizures, and an ineffective disciplinary system. In an overview of the PRPD, the DOJ gave...

On Wall Street bonuses are back. Bolstered by a government bailout in the hundreds of billions, New York City's financial sector is once again riding high. But just off of Wall Street, neighborhoods across New York City are struggling to pull out of an economic crisis that has left too...