David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
How to Get Help Paying for Food and Groceries in NYC
Many New Yorkers face food insecurity, with 1 in 4 experiencing limited access to adequate nutrition. The SNAP program helps, but stigma and shame often deter eligible individuals from applying. Understanding the eligibility criteria and application process is essential. Various food assistance programs are available, and numerous retailers accept EBT payments. If you need immediate help, organizations like Hunger Free America and Food Bank for New York City offer support. For application assistance, consult HRA centers or community-based organizations. Don’t hesitate to seek help—food assistance is a crucial lifeline for many New Yorkers.
‘It’s Becoming Too Expensive to Live’: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope With Limited Budgets
Economic insecurity is upending the lives of millions of older adults as soaring housing costs and inflation diminish the value of fixed incomes. Across the country, seniors who until recently successfully managed limited budgets are growing more anxious and distressed….
17,000 kids a day are dying because of malnutrition. What will you do?
Did you know that every day, more than 17,000 children die from hunger and malnutrition? This is equivalent to one child every five minutes. In the developing world, almost half of all deaths in children under 5 are due to…
Here’s How Homelessness in New York Compares to the Rest of the Country
Homelessness is on the rise in the United States. According to a study published by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the number of Americans experiencing homelessness has grown each year since 2015. As of January 2020, there were an estimated…
AN UNCHARITABLE VIEW OF CHARITY
If billionaires are saying they want to “give back,” it’s because we’ve been letting them take too much. By Jim Hightower | January 26, 2022/OtherWords.org Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the…
How Excess Military Spending Blocks Building Back Better
Understanding why President Biden’s Build Back Better plan stalled requires consuming a big fat reality sandwich: The United States spends more on its military than the next eleven highest-spending countries combined and a much greater chunk of its economy than…
More Than 100,000 NYC Students Are Homeless, New Report Finds
Reema Amin, THE CITY This article was originally publishedon Nov 8 at 11:59am ESTby THE CITY/Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign…
Still Sleeping in the Roosevelt Island Subway. Is there no solution?
Last month, we posted about the high volume of people finding a place to sleep in the Roosevelt Island subway station. Mid-morning today, there were a pair so out of it, they managed sleeping soundly on those god awful, ribbed…
TO FIGHT POVERTY, CUT THE PENTAGON BUDGET
For me, the military wasn’t a way out of poverty. Instead, militarism is why so many of us are poor in the first place. By T.J. Thompson | June 23, 2021 This article originally appeared in OtherWords. I grew up on the…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor