COVID-19
Family Homelessness in NYC: Keeping Track of Housing Insecurity in 2020
New York City is on the brink of an eviction crisis. There were already 43,000 people living in family shelters in New York City in 2019, including close to 25,000 children and teen. But with the state moratorium anticipated to be lifted in January, a …
City Council Testimony: Broadband and the Digital Divide
On October 15, Citizen’s Committee for Children of New York submitted testimony to the New York City Council Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises and the Committee on Technology regarding the digital divide. CCC’s testimony described the digital inequ …
NYC’s Growing Income Inequality Threatens Pandemic Recovery
New data from the Census Bureau reinforce a disturbing trend: over the last decade, New York City’s income inequality worsened. That is, the growth of incomes at the top continued to outpace growth at the bottom, expanding the gap between. Citizens’ Co …
Budget Cuts Threaten Behavioral Health Services When Students Need Them Most
We’re sorry but this brief doesn’t work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue. Download the full brief as a PDF here Photo credit: Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office For the past 8 months, COVID-19 has been impactin …
A School Year Like No Other Requires Creativity, Flexibility, and Most of All Equity
Download the full brief as a PDF here New York City will be attempting one of the most complicated instructional challenges the nation’s largest school district has ever undertaken. The 2020-2021 school year is set to begin next week with a blended lea …
Economic Hardship From COVID-19 Facing NYC’s Working Parents and Youth
Download the full brief as a PDF here The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented crisis for New York City, but the outbreak of cases has wrought particular devastation in select communities – specifically, though not exclusively, many outer-borough a …
