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Micro-apartments: more trouble than they’re worth?

A pilot project opens the door to squeezing people into spaces as small as 250 square feet. Beneficial innovation or retrograde lowering of living standards?

Housing NYC Quality of life

“The State DOH official said she didnt think anything was lost by not having an exchange option for individual and family plans that provides out-of-network coverage.”

Out-of-network coverage in New York? We left it up to the insurers

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

In most of New York State, it doesn’t matter what “metal level” you choose: you can’t get an individual or family health insurance plan on the state’s exchange that provides coverage for out-of-network physician care. How did the exchange come to be designed without a requirement of such coverage? That’s what the insurers chose. And some advocates for better health care are concerned.

Freeing up an enormous nest egg

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

Both the economy and quality of life would get a boost if U.S. retirees spent as much as old people elsewhere. Why don’t they? The lack of an adequate safety net breeds fear.

Aging Role of government Social Security

Shackling gov’t employees to their desks

Original Reporting | By Timothy Noah

Deep cuts in agency conference travel sought by GOP members of Congress belie their “run government like business” mantra.

Government services Politics

While you were worrying about rising sea levels…

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

If Florida is a guinea pig for climate change, there is one consequence for which the state may be especially unprepared: a rise in infectious diseases.

Environment Health

Initial victory against NYPD in Freedom of Information suit

Original Reporting | By Craig Gurian

Court settlement directs NYPD to provide Remapping Debate with copies of protest permit records previously withheld from us, and to pay our attorney's fees. But data provided so far is incomplete and fight will continue over Department's claim of having no records for key periods (including 1967 to 1969, a time of extensive protest).

Freedom of information NYC Policing

Making government service the first choice for more college students

Original Reporting | By Kevin C. Brown

Taking a page from the recruiting playbooks of finance, consulting, and tech.

Education Employment

Stopping tax avoidance without causing “flight”

Original Reporting | By Meade Klingensmith

If the U.S. barred companies from deferring taxes on overseas profits, the sky, it turns out, would not fall.

Corporations Taxes

Citizens without obligations?

Original Reporting | By Mike Alberti

Very few American-based corporations we contacted acknowledged any national obligations, suggesting a clear disjunction between how individual and corporate citizenship is perceived.

Citizenship Corporations Politics

Public transit 101: read a “how to start a business” book

Original Reporting | By Kevin C. Brown

The ticket to getting widespread transit adoption in U.S. cities? Invest in convenient service upfront. The riders will follow.

Alternative models Infrastructure Transportation

No vote on gun control? No votes on judicial nominees? Filibuster reform coming?

Original Reporting | By Samantha Cook, Meade Klingensmith

How have recent developments affected the views of Senators on filibuster reform? Where do they stand now? We asked them directly, but it's really hard to get them to put their cards on the table.

Legislation Open government

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