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Debating the Merits of a Job Guarantee
By Steven Attewell This Labor Day, many people no doubt gave thanks for the low unemployment rate (while perhaps bemoaning wages that aren’t keeping up with inflation). Yet at the same time, at many Democratic Party Labor Day BBQs, presidential candidates and other elected and activists touted proposals for a job guarantee to ensure full
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New Labor Forum Student Essay Contest
Are you a student or recent alumni of the Murphy Institute? Well we want your essays! New Labor Forum, the Murphy Institute’s journal of ideas, analysis and debate, is excited to announce a new Essay Contest for currently enrolled students and alumni that have graduated in the past two years. We invite original essays (neither previously published, nor
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New Labor Forum Highlights, Labor Day Edition
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. New Labor Forum’s September 2018 print issue is rolling off the press now. It contains as good a reason as there is
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Welcome Letter from SLU Dean Greg Mantsios
Dear Friends of the Murphy Institute and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies; On this Labor Day weekend, I want to welcome everyone to the new CUNY School for Labor and Urban Studies (SLU). As you may know, the School traces its roots to the Murphy Institute which was re-constituted as a CUNY
