New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/29/2008
Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, mean while, seems to believe in public- school accountability - on the cheap. Gotbaum asked the Independent Budget Office to find out how much the Department of Education spends tracking teacher performance and...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... by clogging the rolls of public assistance programs.Released last week by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, the New York Immigration Coalition and the Community Service Society of New York, it is the first guide to public benefits based on immigration status.The free guide is available in six languages - Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Korean, Bengali and English - in recognition of the diversity...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... for themselves or their families, but many may not know how to access the benefits they need," Gotbaum said.For each benefit, the guide provides information on who qualifies based on immigration status, income limits and other requirements. It also lists contact information, including phone number and Web address, and directions on how to locate the nearest office for the agency they need....
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories (Free subscription) | 11/24/2008
... be his chief of staff. The only other banker-type Obama has asked to help him so far has been Josh Gotbaum, a onetime partner at Lazard Frères & Co., in New York. Obama asked Gotbaum to head his transition team to the Treasury and where he goes from here is anyone’s guess. But even Gotbaum has been off Wall Street for more than a decade, even though some reports have—erroneously—described...
