Urban Studies
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New Labor Forum Highlights: June 11th, 2018
The New Labor Forum has a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. In this newsletter, we turn our attention to the suburbs. And for good reason, since that’s where slightly over half of…
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Urban Studies
Urban Studies offers undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs that examine the problems of city dwellers in poor, immigrant, and working-class communities and efforts to address those problems through policy innovations derived from sound research and sharpened through democratic participation. Learn more here.
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Uber, the “Metropocalypse,” and Economic Inequality in D.C.
This post originally appeared at Working-Class Perspectives. By Katie Wells, Kafui Attoh, and Declan Cullen Public transit infrastructure in Washington, D.C. is crumbling. Metro and bus services have been cut. Fares have gone up. And, safety remains a problem. After 40 years of deferred maintenance, poor management, and the lack of decent, long-term funding, the Metro…
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Urban Studies Capstone Presentations (12/12)
Tues, Dec. 12th, @ 6:15pm Murphy Institute 25 W. 43rd St., 18A, New York, NY Please join us for our Urban Studies Capstone Presentations this Tuesday! URB 699.02 Capstone with Prof. Elizabeth Eisenberg The Sub-Saharan African Social Support Lacuna: Findings and Future Considerations, Immanuel Boateng Why Are Candidates Failing to Complete Processing at The Human Resources…
