Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the Rockefeller Foundation today announced the launch of a new Conditional Cash Transfer Learning Network which will share New York City’s experience designing and implementing Opportunity NYC, the nation’s first conditional cash transfer (CCT) program... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced the launch of Cities of Financial Empowerment (CFE), a coalition of City governments seeking to address and expand the role of municipal government in improving the financial health and security of residents with low and moderate incomes.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Department of Homeless Services (DHS) Commissioner Robert V. Hess today announced that street homelessness in New York City is down 12 percent since last year and 25 percent since 2005... continue

The following is Mayor Michael Bloomberg's address to World Bank employees.... continue

"I have a dream" will forever be linked with the man whose life we celebrated this month. But let's not forget that Martin Luther King Jr. also said, "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has risen to King's challenge by investing in those less fortunate.... continue

Politicians have mostly skirted poverty as a political issue since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on it more than four decades ago. Even the federal government’s method of measuring poverty is a relic from the 1960s... continue

New York's mayor sets a worthy task of calculating a more accurate measure for poverty.... continue

It was 40 years ago this month that the Bureau released its first national assessment of poverty in America. And since then, we’ve learned an awful lot about what works – and what doesn’t work – in the fight against poverty.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Linda Gibbs today released details of the incentives for Opportunity NYC, the city’s innovative conditional cash transfer program aimed at helping New Yorkers break the cycle of poverty.... continue

What if poor parents were paid to talk with their kid's teacher? Or to visit a dentist, or get job training? New York's mayor believes such incentives can reduce the nearly 20 percent poverty rate in his city. Kudos to him for taking a new crack at an old problem.... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg traveled to Toluca, Mexico today for a site visit in support of his recently-launched Opportunity NYC, the nation's first-ever conditional cash transfer pilot program designed to help New Yorkers break the cycle of poverty.... continue

The following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg’s State of the City Address as delivered at New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn.... continue

"When you do things with public money, you really are required to do things that have some proven track record and to focus on more conventional approaches," [Michael Bloomberg] told a news conference. "But conventional approaches, as we know, have kept us in this vicious cycle" -- that phrase again -- "of too many people not being able to work themselves out of poverty."... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced a $150 million annual commitment to implement the recommendations of the Commission for Economic Opportunity, which the Mayor appointed to develop new strategies to tackle poverty.... continue

Bob Herbert Op-Ed column says New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering a promising program known as conditional cash transfers for the city's 1.5 million poor people.... continue

After months of study, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Commission for Economic Opportunity has recommended ways to reduce poverty in New York, and the mayor has endorsed its report, including remedies like day-care tax credits and incentive payments for better parenting -- novel strategies that could make New York's approach a pilot for how to help the nation's working poor.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced a $150 million annual commitment to implement the recommendations of the Commission for Economic Opportunity, which the Mayor appointed to develop new strategies to tackle poverty.... continue

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presents the recommendations of the 32-member Mayor’s Commission for Economic Opportunity.... continue

A decade ago, one in every seven New Yorkers was on welfare. Today, the rolls are as low as they were 42 years ago - when President Johnson declared War on Poverty. This may not sound impressive. But it is.... continue

The following is the text of Mayor Bloomberg’s 2nd Inaugural Address.... continue

In a keynote address to the National Alliance to End Homelessness Annual Conference in Washington, DC, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced two new efforts to build on New York City’’s historic efforts to solve homelessness.... continue

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2004 State of the City Address.... continue