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Murphy Institute Featured in the Positive Community
Last week, The Positive Community featured an article about the Murphy Institute by Henry A. Garrido, Executive Director of District Council37, AFCME, who also serves as a Murphy Institute Advisory Board member. It begins: There is a hidden gem of higher education opportunity in mid-Manhattan called the Murphy Institute for Worker Education. The Institute, part of
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Video: Getting Back on Track: The New York Transit Crisis – Part 1
This morning, the Murphy Institute hosted a forum exploring the nature and causes of the current mass transit crisis, and focusing on solutions that could enable New York to sustain itself as a world-class city. Panel 1: Kafui Attoh, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Murphy Institute Robert Paaswell, Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, City College of
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How Poor Public Transit Makes Idiots of Us All
This post originally appeared on the London School of Economics Policy Blog. For more on the public transit crisis, join us for our October 13th forum “Getting Back on Track: The New York Transit Crisis.“ By Kafui Attoh The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities,
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The Commons Cafe Seeks Coop Members (Brooklyn, NY)
The Commons Café is located within the Brooklyn Commons, an event space and co-working center near downtown Brooklyn, New York. The current owner of the cafe wants to turn it over to a team of workers who will convert it to a worker-coop. We expect this process to take about six months and are looking
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