A yearly budget dance between social services providers and politicians might end this year, with threatened cuts actually coming true.

City officials and private economists revised their employment forecasts, saying the decline would be about 200,000 jobs.

The number of poor people in New York rose by about 300,000, according to a new measure of poverty by the city, but declined under the federal formula.

Economists are revising their employment forecasts, saying the decline will be about 200,000 jobs.

Economists are revising their employment forecasts, saying the decline will be about 200,000 jobs.

City officials and private economists are revising their employment forecasts, saying the decline will be about 200,000 jobs.

A program once scorned as “welfare” enjoys broad new support from city, state and federal governments and from neighborhood groups that recruit clients.

The Most Rev. Rowan Williams said the “fat cats” of the world are not bad people, just victims of a terrible misunderstanding.

Hearings have exposed anger over the Bloomberg administration’s decision to close many big schools, but officials say smaller schools tend to perform better.

New York officials say smaller schools generally outperform larger ones in serving children in high-needs communities. That has led to the closing of many large schools.