(Ms. Longoria had been on the magazine's spring cover months before Ms. Mulligan's letter was published online).
And in some towns, long-delayed union contracts are finally being resolved, prompting the need to cover months or years of retroactive pay increases in the midst of a revenue collapse.
To help him with bills, Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York, one of the agencies supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, drew $286 from the fund so that he could cover months of cellphone charges and buy MetroCards.
In other words, the 2-month follow-up period covered 2-4 months after baseline.
The audit period, he noted, covered 30 months of Mr. Hevesi's tenure and just 18 months of his own.
The study covered 15 months, from July 2012 to September 2013, comprising the outbreak and the preceding six months.
And aid from local churches covered six months of additional back rent and utility bills.
"We were lucky the insurance from the Classic covered two months," Cashman said.
"Even though I worked the whole year, I had three separate contracts" that covered 10 months of teaching.
Cost-effectiveness analysis only covered three months from randomization.
