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Article: Giuliani's suppressed report on homeless youth
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- The Village Voice
- Article date:
- August 24, 1999
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A REPORT THAT HAS BEEN HIDDEN FROM THE PUBLIC FOR TWO YEARS BYTHE GIULIANI ADMINISTRATION, detailing the dire needs of homeless youth in New York City-and the administration's inadequate response to those needs-was obtained by the Voice last week. The findings have never been published.
The 1997 study-which was commissioned by the mayor's office-was suppressed after its author, medical anthropologist Michael Clatts, appeared on NPR in April of 1998. The report was mentioned by WNYC reporter Beth Fertig during the broadcast.
Daniel Tietz, an expert on homelessness who selected Clatts to do the study for the Giuliani administration, says that the next day, "The mayor's office called me and ...