Every summer, the mayor’s office hires a small team of multilingual interns to go undercover into city service centers and pretend they do not speak English.  The interns, “secret shoppers” who are assigned a character and a backstory, walk in with a simple question for the staff, often about a form or program eligibility.  They […]

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