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Deep-rooted dysfunction

The current administration in San Jose points to "excessive" retirement benefits for its workers as causing its budget woes. But "blame the workers" doesn't adequately explain San Jose's chronic troubles.

Government services Taxes

Left behind: San Jose and the broken promises of the neoliberal era

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

Silicon Valley has starkly failed to deliver on the promise of shared prosperity; the city of San Jose is Exhibit A.

Corporate influence Urban Policy

Day of reckoning for the parched Southwest: technology and conservation won’t be enough

Original Reporting | By T.J. Lewan

Does continued growth equal regional death?

Environment Population

Why no literacy programs for 30 million in U.S.?

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

It's a solvable problem, but Congress is apparently content with adults being stuck struggling at a third-grade reading level or below.

Education

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

Original Reporting | By David Noriega

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 didn't 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

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