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Praise for Murphy Institute via DC37
The latest issue of the DC 37 newsletter features a column by Murphy Institute alum Moira Dolan singing high praise for Murphy programs, faculty and students. Dolan is senior assistant director at the DC 37 Research and Negotiations Department and recently graduated from the Murphy Institute, in part thanks to assistance from the DC 37 Education
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Report: State of the Unions 2015
What’s the relationship between unionization and the racial pay gap? According to a new report by Murphy Institute Professors Ruth Milkman and Stephanie Luce, The State of the Unions: A Profile of Organized Labor in New York City, New York State, and the United States, unions narrow the racial divide in wage levels. The report states: Blacks have
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Pope Francis & the Moral Right to “Own Our Labor & Rent Our Capital”
A Growing Hybrid-Model-Movement Ripe for Political Consolidation By Michael Peck In America, the world of work has already changed beyond conventional wisdom sense perceptions and the willpower capacity of elected politicians to understand and embrace it. This workplace relationship tsunami, “a historic shift that rivals the transition from farms to factories,” calls out the anachronistic redlining
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Civic Engagement and Political Participation Programming at Murphy
The Murphy Institute is pleased to announce the expansion of Civic Engagement and Political Participation programming beginning Fall 2015. The new Civic Engagement and Political Participation programming is part of the Institute’s ongoing commitment to increase civic and political participation of workers, union members, and community activists.
