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Organizations that help impoverished central New Yorkers get an education, find jobs or decent housing are getting a boost from a pot of state money meant…
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The city of Syracuse has one of the highest concentrations of poverty in the nation. How does housing discrimination and segregation factor into that?…
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Utica residents got to weigh in recently on how the city will go about its effort to improve the lives of lower-income residents.People packed the…
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Oswego is offering up to $400,000 to individuals, business owners and or organizations that can help the city combat poverty. It's part of the Empire…
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What began with a service trip to Ghana in 2010 for Lauri Rupracht has blossomed into a nonprofit organization called the Americans Serving Abroad…
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Last Month, NPR and PBS aired reports on two federal programs for low income housing, the low income housing tax credit program and Section 8 housing…
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Two Democratic mayoral candidates in Syracuse have different perspectives when it comes to tackling the city's problems. One comes from one of the poorest…
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Construction will begin soon on Syracuse’s Near West Side to create OnTECH, a charter school targeted towards helping refugees and at-risk students get…
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Another Democratic candidate has entered into the race to be Syracuse’s next mayor. The head of the city’s innovation team said he is ready to tackle big…
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A third of the city of Utica lives below the poverty line, including 47 percent of its children. That is the starting point for the city's new poverty…