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State Workers Sucker-Punched in Fight for $15 Proposal
Workers in New York State have reason to be excited: Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken steps toward raising the statewide minimum wage to $15. To many, this might seem like an obvious victory for workers and activists who have been engaged in the long fight for $15/hr. But, as Henry Garrido, executive director of DC 37
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NYCHA, Representation & Service Provision: A Student’s Perspective
Featured photo via Urban Upbound By Paula Bonfatti For the past three months, I have interned in the research department of Urban Upbound, a nonprofit organization that provides services to public housing residents in Queens, New York. Urban Upbound supplies this community with tools and resources needed to achieve economic mobility and self-sufficiency; their vision
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East New York Rezoning: Communities Respond
The first of the de Blasio administration’s neighborhood rezonings was unveiled at the end of September with the East New York plan: an ambitious document that includes mandatory affordable housing, new parks, bike lanes, and a 1,000-seat school. While the Department of City Planning (DCP) claims that 50 percent of housing built over the next 15 years under
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Debating Criminal Justice Reform
For more on this topic, join us at the Murphy Institute on October 19th for this month’s Labor Forum: Black Lives Matter & the Fight for Fifteen: A New Social Movement? When looking to reform our obviously broken criminal justice and carceral system, at what point must we examine the structural causes of urban crime? Can we
