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...years, now it's the deepest crater of the recession over the last year. And while I do want to get my money back, I'm a little worried about seeing the dream sucked out of our most American city, the one with the optimism and possibility of New York City in 1900. The one I've, embarrassingly, come to love. (See pictures of hard times hitting Las Vegas...
...become so interested in cheese? I'd always liked eating cheese. I moved to New York City after college and the food-shopping experience was unlike anything I had ever encountered. My neighborhood had a lot of old, southern-Italian food vendors and there was one shop that had a cheese counter. There were 30 different options of cheese, but they didn't look or taste anything alike. It was very baffling and exciting...
...billionaire George Soros announced a $35 million donation to the state of New York for a "Back to School" program that - coupled with $140 million of federal stimulus funds - would give each child on public assistance and food stamps $200 to start the school year. More than 850,000 families woke up the next day to find an extra $200 automatically added to their public-assistance debit account. Not a huge windfall, but enough for impoverished students to buy pencils, notebooks, protractors, a backpack and maybe some new school clothes. (Read an interview with George Soros...
...share of the $5 billion pool as long as they - or private groups like Soros' - pony up 20% of the overall cost; the feds cover the remainder. States can 1) provide more cash payments to families, 2) subsidize additional jobs or 3) set up onetime, nonrepeating benefit programs. New York's Back to School initiative, which used Soros' private donation as its initial seed money, utilized the third option, appealing to the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs TANF and its emergency fund, for the additional $140 million...
...York, advocates of the Back to School program responded to criticism that the plan does nothing to ensure that each child's $200 allotment will actually be spent on school supplies. "Parents will do right by their children," says Mimi Corcoran, director of the Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation at Soros' Open Society Institute. "We really didn't have a concern about parents' spending the money incorrectly. They know what's best for their children. No strings attached was important...