Living Wage Law Would Create Benefits for Business, City's Economy
In response to the hottest legislative issue in City Hall right now, the Daily News ran two opinion pieces on a bill that would guarantee living wages to all workers at city-subsidized development...
View ArticleWrestling With Racial Bias, New York Firefighters Resist Reform
New York City’s firefighters have been embroiled in racial and ethnic politics throughout their history, and the Fire Department’s latest civil rights controversy has stoked a political standoff and a...
View ArticleNew York's Lousy Jobs (And How We Can Make Them Better)
Should we tear down the city’s middle class? Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones? That’s the policy choice facing New York’s city and state leaders. So far, their decisions aren’t encouraging:...
View ArticleBloomberg’s Job Killing Budget Cuts
It’s the city’s ninth round of budget cuts in three fiscal years, and the most brutal. Mayor Bloomberg calls for 6,201 layoffs of public workers in the 2011 and 2012 fiscal years. Instead of responding...
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