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The Agency's Income Support Centers were converted to Job Centers. Since the implementation of reforms in New York City, the Cash Assistance Caseload has declined to its lowest level since 1964, while enrollment in work support programs like Food Stamps has increased.
Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) is a settlement house founded in 1974 by community activists Janet Athanasidy, Patricia Burns, and Mary McLoughlin, serving the Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood and the Bronx. KHCC offers programs and services in multiple sites for more than 4,500 people annually.
Arguing in support for SNAP, the Food Research and Action Center argued that "putting more resources quickly into the hands of the people most likely to turn around and spend it can both boost the economy and cushion the hardships on vulnerable people who face a constant struggle against hunger." [65] Researchers have found that every $1 that ...
The federal Food and Nutrition Service has several programs, administered by state agencies, that help fight hunger and obesity by reimbursing organizations such as schools, child care centers, and after-school programs for providing healthy meals to children: [7] National School Lunch Program, School Breakfast Program,
To prevent homelessness, BronxWorks established the Homeless Prevention Program in 1992. Since that time, it has helped more than 20,000 low-income Bronx families avoid homelessness. [2] BronxWorks had assumed responsibility for three seniors’ centers by the end of the 1990s.
The Justice Sonia Sotomayor Houses and Community Center is a housing project in Soundview, The Bronx, New York City.Formerly known as the Bronxdale Houses, the project was renamed in honor of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who had spent part of her childhood in the development, in June 2010. [1]
The Bronx (/ b r ɒ ŋ k s / BRONKS) is the northernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York.It shares a land border with Westchester County to its north; to its south and west, the New York City borough of Manhattan is across the Harlem River; and to its south and east is the borough of Queens, across the East River.
Hunts Point is home to one of the largest food distribution centers in the world, covering 329 acres (1.33 km 2). [21] The Produce and Meat Distribution Center were opened along the Bronx river in 1967 and 1974, respectively.