But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary. Early one morning last week several carloads of men ...

New York City is, among other things, a small welfare state. It carries no less than 500,000 people on its welfare rolls—a number roughly equal to the whole population of Denver-ranging from ...

This three-part series takes a deep dive into New York’s Administration for Children ... of three siblings in September 2022 in Coney Island, allegedly at the hands of their mother.

Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration quietly changed rules about who was eligible for welfare in May, ...