Social-services spending under Mayor Adams soars thanks to the...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Even with this increase, though, thanks to curtailed spending on other social-services, the total social-service budget -- public assistance, medical care and homeless services -- actually shrunk a tiny amount in the de Blasio years, from $11.4 to $11.3 billion.
57% : During his eight years in office, education spending rose a whopping 27% above inflation, from $30.2 to $38.3 billion.
57% : But does Adams not think the tens of thousands -- potentially well over a hundred thousand -- migrants attracted to New York's housing-on-demand policy will need medical services and education services, and, since the federal government doesn't approve food stamps for undocumented immigrants, cash payments for necessities?
47% : Most, in the end, likely will not qualify for asylum.
46% : But, except for homeless services, he didn't blow out the budget on social services.
34% : For all of de Blasio's -- and, for that matter, Bloomberg's -- increased focus on education spending, the city, left to its own devices, wouldn't have had a hard time dialing it back.

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