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Mayor’s Axe to After-School?

The Bloomberg administration is poised to make sharp cuts to the primary source of government funding for hundreds of free after-school programs that currently serve about 53,000 children across the city. Just two years ago, the city’s “Out-of-School Time” or OST program received more than $117 million in city funds and served more than 87,000 [...]

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Dozens of Young People Turned Away From Shelters

New York City shelters for homeless and runaway youth have turned away dozens of young people this summer because of lack of space, shelter operators and advocacy groups say. Advocates attribute the problem to the economic downturn, which they say has made it more difficult for older adolescents and young adults to find the jobs [...]

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