After 20 years of working for the city, Melvina Vandross doesn’t have a pension and hasn’t accumulated one day of paid vacation.

She’s one of more than 10,000 home-based child-care providers in the Bronx who contract with the Administration for Children’s Services to care for the children of low-income parents.

“The child-care system needs to be completely overhauled, from the way we’re paid to the respect we receive,” said Vandross.
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Click here for video reported and produced by Heather Appel, Zeyad Kasim and Nadia Zonis.

Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s executive order will give all New Yorkers the opportunity to apply for state driver’s licenses without regard to immigration status. Immigrants are praising the measure, but critics say it presents national security issues. Baruch College professor and immigration lawyer Allan Wernick joins us in our studio.

Producer: Marlene Peralta
Reporting by Jego Armstrong and Sebastian Bednarski

When the city Board of Health voted to ban trans fats from city restaurants in December 2006, many small business owners had no idea what the transition would entail.

Now the city is sponsoring a series of free workshops for restaurant professionals intended to ease the burden of figuring out how to comply and cook without partially hydrogenated fats.

On October 2, 30 food professionals gathered in the Bronx, all with the same goal: to learn how to make their restaurants trans fat free.

Click here to hear one food professional’s experiences. Click here for a slide show of the Bronx training session.

Darnell Finisterre and three of his classmates at the School for Arts and Business in Corona have a bright future in advertising - and public safety.

Their ad about the dangers of reckless driving beat out entries from 24 other city high school teams last week to win the fourth annual Advertising Futures competition, which pairs students with local firms to create public service ads targeting teens.

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