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National Adjunct Walkout Day
By Steve Brier It is important for us to remember, as members of a university community, that this is also a workplace, a place where people labor in “traditional” jobs like building maintenance, skilled trades like engineering and carpentry, food service, and, of course, as intellectual workers who teach and do research. Most of the
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New Report on Immigrant Financial Empowerment
On Wednesday, February 25th, the Northwest Queens Financial Education Network, including the Community Development Project, Chhaya CDC, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE), and Queens Community House (QCH), held an event at the Murphy Institute to release a new report entitled Bridging the Gap: Overcoming Barriers to Immigrant Financial Empowerment in Northwest Queens. Check it out!
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Murphy Student Awarded Scholarship to Attend National Organizers Workshop
Congratulations to Sahar Khan, Labor Studies MA student at Murphy, who was recently awarded a scholarship to attend the National Organizers Workshop! The National Organizers Workshop March 6-7th, 2015 in Washington, D.C. will bring together 400 frontline organizers from union and community organizations. Large group dialogues and workshops are being designed and led by frontline
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2015 Diversity Scholarship Application Now Online, Extended Deadline April 30th
The Joseph S. Murphy Scholarship for Diversity in Labor seeks to make a significant contribution toward redressing existing imbalances in the labor movement and academic discipline of Labor Studies by providing financial support to students entering our Labor Studies programs: up to $30,000 for graduate students, and up to $20,000 for undergraduate students The 2015
