"It's no surprise that youth vio­lence has spiked just as New York City feels the full effect of a historic recession and tries to cope with terri ble levels of unemployment in our African-American and Latino com­munities," assessed Manhattan Bor ough President Scott M. Stringer.

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Last year, Raymond's long career as an educator came to an abrupt end when Department of Education officials decided to do away with the automatic assignment of students with limited English skills to a bilingual program.

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After studying forensic psychology at John Jay College for the past seven years, Karla could be making $30 to $40 per hour in her chosen field. Instead, Karla, 25, pursues her Masters by day and toils by night as a waitress paid off the books at a Mexican restaurant in Brooklyn.MORE>

The worst is yet to come for apartment buildings with too much debt. What will that mean for tens of thousands of tenants?

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"It's very hard when you go home and your wife asks every day, 'what happened?'" Torres said. "This company knows what they are doing. In the end, they make the community more poor. They are destroying lives. They are destroying families."

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Seeing inability to afford Jewish education as nothing less than an existential threat to Jewish continuity, argues author and radio host Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. MORE>