NY1 VIDEO: Errol Louis of “Inside City Hall” discusses the drop in summer jobs for city teenagers with Jonathan Bowles, the executive director of the Center for an Urban Future, Suzanne Lynn, the deputy commissioner for community development at the city's Department of Youth and Community Development, Anthony Ng, the director of policy and advocacy for United Neighborhood Houses of New York, and 16-year-old Avion Cummings from Manhattan, who was unsuccessful in her attempts to get into the summer jobs program the past two years but found her own summer internship this year.
Watch the discussion here>>
The Queens Community House (QCH) Pomonok Farmers' Market debuted
on July 7 at 10 a.m. in the parking lot of the Pomonok Community Center,
at 67-09 Kissena Boulevard in Flushing.
Though last week’s budget deal spared a number of people and programs from cuts, adults who rely on literacy programs that teach them how to read and write are now about to lose vital financial support from the city.
After months of public protests and private negotiations, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a deal on New York City’s budget for FY2011-12 which begins on Friday. The agreement, which was announced late on Friday, avoids teacher layoffs and firehouse closings. It also avoids many, but certainly not all, cuts to human service programs. 
Chants of “You say cut back, we say fight back” could be heard for blocks around City Hall at a massive rally on June 16. The gathering of hundreds of city parents, teachers and students was the result against the many recent announced cuts to Youth Services in the Mayor’s latest Executive Budget.
These are uncertain time for many parents of young children in New York. Although the city has restored some of the cuts originally proposed in childcare, the mayor's executive budget still calls for reductions. In addition, the city is planning alterations to the system that raise other questions among parents and childcare workers.
