Bloomberg Budget

Saki Knafo

Bloomberg's Budget Cuts Could Cause Thousands Of New York City Parents To Quit Their Jobs

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.24.2012

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Thousands of New York City parents said they'd quit their jobs or leave their children home alone if they lost access to childcare and after-school pr...

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Saki Knafo

Bloomberg Slashes Children's Services, Contributing To What Advocates Describe As A National Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.03.2012

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Teachers, parents and children's advocates across New York City shuddered Thursday morning as Mayor Michael Bloomberg released his executive budget: J...

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Saki Knafo

Bloomberg Budget Brawl: Children's Advocates Scramble To Save New York's State-Of-The-Art After-School System On Eve Of Massive Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.03.2012

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A coalition of more than 150 New York City groups, including the Children's Aid Society and the Police Athletic League, is making a last-ditch effort ...

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Saki Knafo

Christine Quinn, City Council Calls Mayor Bloomberg's Cuts To Children's Service "Unacceptable"

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 04.18.2012

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Hundreds of parents, children and teachers gathered on the steps of New York's City Hall Tuesday to protest Mayor Michael Bloomberg's budget plan, whi...

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Saki Knafo

Children's Advocates To Bloomberg: Don't Cut Funding For Kids!

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.29.2012

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A coalition of more than 150 New York organizations, ranging from the Police Athletic League to the Children's Aid Society, have signed a letter urgin...

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Matt Sledge

PHOTOS: Thousands Of Teachers Swarm Wall Street In Protest

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.12.2011

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Thousands of teachers, social workers, union members and more took part in a march Thursday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for wide-ranging b...

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Matt Sledge

Payback: Could New York City Squeeze Big Banks For $120 Million?

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.11.2011

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A coalition of groups planning a coming rally against Wall Street bankers has hit upon an straightforward, if perhaps overly optimistic, solution for ...

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Child Care Cuts a Body Blow to New York's Working Parents

Dan Collins | Posted 06.21.2011

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Subsidized child care has few advocates in the tangled world of New York City politics. Cut senior citizen centers or libraries or - God forbid - a firehouse, and the City Council will hear shrieks from their district. Child care, not so much.

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New York Releases Proposed Teacher Layoffs By School

| Nicole Bode | Posted 05.25.2011

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MANHATTAN -- Parents, students and teachers were reeling Monday after the city's Education Department released the list of teachers slated to be cut f...

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Mayor Bloomberg Takes On Unions, Albany

Dan Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Bloomberg took a crack at rebuilding his flagging popularity today in a State of the City speech that made war on Albany. It was a new day. New, new, new.

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Bloomberg BLASTS Albany Over Massive Budget Cuts

nytimes.com | DAVID W. CHEN and JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg unveiled a bleak $63 billion budget on Thursday, he warned that it would cause a lot of pain to many New Yorkers and he ...

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Bloomberg, Council Sign Off on $60B Budget

nytimes.com | DAVID W. CHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pinched by a recession that has hit New York City's financial services hard, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the City Council reached a deal Monday nig...

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