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Vulture Capital Hits Home
The financial industry has found yet another way to profit from the distress of homeowners. Investors are trading distressed residential assets – mortgages and vacant properties in severe
New Report: Raise Chicago
The recession appears to be safely in the rearview mirror for corporations, whose profits and stock prices have rebounded. However, the jobs recovery has been fueled by the proliferation of jobs...
Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Minnesota passed the first charter school law in 1991.[i] Since then, lawmakers in 41 states and the District of Columbia have written their own charter school laws.[ii] By all accounts, the growth...
Developing Progress: Ensuring that public resources contribute to New York’s equity, resilience, and dynamic democracy
Developing Progress is a proposal for progressive development policies and a call for responsible real estate development that values the safety of workers.
Fatally Flawed: Why the Rockefeller Institute’s Scaffold Law Report Doesn’t Add Up
New York State’s Labor Law §240 (commonly known as the Scaffold Law) helps keep workers safe by holding employers and owners liable if unsafe conditions at their worksites result in injuries or death...
More Riders, More Access, Better Service
Transit can help bridge the divides that separate us: economic class, race, age, disability status, and access to opportunities. Transit is unique in its ability to produce a more equitable state....
Who We Are: Municipal ID Cards as a Local Strategy to Promote Belonging and Shared Community Identity
One of the paradoxes at the center of the struggle for immigrant rights in the United States is that while immigration law and policy is made at the national level, most of the impacts of those laws...
Leveraging New York's financial Power to Combat Inequality - The Report
New York is among the most unequal cities in the US. This inequality has become the most pressing issue in New York City and New York State. The good news is that New Yorkers are demanding action —...
New York Immigrant Family Unity Project - The Report
Each year, thousands of New Yorkers — parents, siblings, employers, workers and students — face detention and the possibility of deportation without the assistance of legal counsel. These New Yorkers...
Fatal Inequality - The Report
The construction industry is full of dangerous jobs. Smaller companies often have particularly unsafe workplaces – they tend to be non-union and lack the necessary training, proper equipment, and...
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