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A City of Immigrant Workers: Building a Workforce Strategy to Support All New Yorkers
New York City is a city of immigrants. New York is home to the most diverse immigrant population of any major city in the world and immigrants make up nearly half of the city’s workforce. Yet the...
Teaching Toward Equity: The importance of English Classes to Reducing Economic Inequality in New York
In 2016, economic inequality remains one of the most pressing issues facing New York. Despite growing overall economic prosperity, New York continues to struggle with high rates of poverty. And while...
Wages And Hours: Why Workers in Emeryville’s Service Sector Need a Fair Workweek
Most Americans are paid by the hour, yet today’s workweek is changing—the 40-hour workweek and the 8-hour day are no longer the norm for a significant portion of the workforce. Labor standards have...
Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools
For at least a decade, the dominant idea about how to improve outcomes for children and youth has focused on control and compliance; holding adults accountable for raising test scores. This approach...
Whose Opportunity? Profiting Off of School Turnaround and Takeover in Atlanta
The “Opportunity School District” (“OSD”) is a proposed, statewide takeover district that would allow the state to seize control of up to 100 “failing” schools for between five and 10 years. This is...
"To Represent the Public": The Federal Reserve's Continued Failure to Represent the American People
"To Represent the Public": The Federal Reserve's Continued Failure to Represent the American People
The boards of directors of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks are important decision-makers and influencers of national monetary policy. Designed to bring voices from diverse economic perspectives to the...
State Takeovers of Low-Performing Schools: A Record of Academic Failure, Financial Mismanagement & Student Harm
Low-performing public schools have become a critical battleground between corporate-backed initiatives that remove local control of schools and favor the privatization of public education, and...
Combatting Wage Theft with the Maryland Paystub Transparency Act of 2016
Wage theft, or the illegal nonpayment of earned wages and benefits, affects millions of workers across the country and amounts to an estimated $50 billion in lost wages annually. The Center for...
Data Brief: Retail Jobs Today
“Retail salesperson” is now the most common occupation in the country. One in ten workers – over 16 million people – are employed in retail, and the industry is projected to continue keeping pace...
By A Thousand Cuts: The Complex Face of Wage Theft in New York
An estimated 2.1 million New Yorkers are victims of wage theft annually, cheated out of a cumulative $3.2 billion in wages and benefits they are owed.1 In recent years—at least as far back as the...
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