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New Report Shows Connection Between Sea Level Rise, Affordable Housing
This weekend, over 300,000 people took to the streets to demand action on climate change. Many of the protesters took pains to demonstrate that climate change and global warming are not “just” environmental issues — they are closely connected to issues of labor, civil rights and housing, too. In a report recently released by the
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Basil Smikle on MSNBC
Basil Smikle Jr. has been an Adjunct Professor at the Murphy Institute for over six years, teaching classes under the umbrella of Urban Studies in the Public Administration Certificate in Policy Analysis and Government, Politics and the Policy-Making Process. This weekend, he appeared on MSNBC to discuss the Democratic party and the 2016 Presidential Election.
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Teachout’s Teach Out
By Joshua Freeman This election season has seen an unusually open battle regarding political strategy among New York unionists and progressives. At stake is a crucial issue: how to balance the demands of building a movement that can fundamentally change a political and economic system that fails to serve most Americans against the existing political arrangements that benefit particular
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Graduated, But Not Gone: Murphy Institute Alumni Network Meets
As the latest group of Murphy MA candidates prepared to graduate, a small group of alumni and alumni-to-be met to form a network. This first Murphy alumni meeting took place on May 19th at the Murphy Institute. With the help of Murphy staff members, the group of MA program and Union Semester students discussed the
