Some 873,000 workers in major New York State low-paid industries are misclassified as independent contractors.
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Our suggestions of new works from New School faculty and graduates to take with you this summer.
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Nearly 4.5 people in the U.S. are still exposed to pollution from municipal waste incinerators.
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A call to counter speculation and displacement with community-controlled housing and neighborhood development.
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Honoring young people’s diverse cultures and lived experiences will help them learn – and also prepare them to be adults who civilly debate, advocate, and vote.
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Transit costs often overwhelm the budgets of low-income New Yorkers. Many don’t even know that they’re eligible for half-price fares.
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There’s a way to make “billionaires’ row” absentee condo owners pay a fairer tax share – and provide relief to lower-income homeowners, too.
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A campaign for fair pay and safe working conditions reveals how being classified “independent contractors” denies workers fundamental protections.
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The City should dramatically decrease pollution and increase safety and environmental justice in overhauling its massive commercial waste system.
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A new policy breaks up cellblock “gang houses” and injects credible messengers to deescalate violence.
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I’ve worked at Rikers Island. I’ve been detained there, too – twice. And a “let them loose on each other” attitude prevailed.
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There has been a flood of what look like involuntary retirements of workers age 55 and up since March 2020.
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As non-profits stumble and for-profits soar, what does that mean for patients and home health aides?
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In a privatized system, public officials have regularly ducked tough choices. Will that now include fair pay for home care workers?
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Locking up more kids on longer sentences didn’t make us safer in the past, and it won’t now. It just intensifies our problems.
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The City’s stop-and-start pattern of curbside organic waste is self-defeating. Instead, it’s time to rethink the way we collect our waste.
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What housing policies can New Yorkers expect from Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul?
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It’s the biggest housing development in the nation – and it played a surprising role in New York City’s near-death fiscal crisis in the 1970s.
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What special burdens do people of color take on when they assume leadership of nonprofit organizations?
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Is this the bold new project New York needs now? Or could it leave us with a nasty financial hangover?
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