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Amy Traub on NYC Economy in The NY Times In a New York Times online piece, DMI’s Amy Traub argues that New York City can reduce inequities and spread the benefits of economic recovery more widely by enacting policies to strengthen living and prevailing wages and to give all working New Yorkers the right to earn paid sick time. The piece is part of the Room for Debate forum featured this week in the opinion and N.Y./region sections. More> |
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| Visit the DMI Archive Click ''Archive'' on the top navigation bar and search through DMI’s virtual archive by subject area, author, or type of media (report, op-ed, press release, or mention of DMI's work in the news.) More» |
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| Can Cities Really Opt Out of Secure Communities? By Afton Branche | Huffington Post | September 2, 2010. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to aggressively expand its newest local immigration enforcement program, some localities are looking to put on the brakes. Secure Communities is touted as a voluntary partnership between federal, state and local agencies that 'supports public safety by strengthening efforts to remove the most dangerous criminal aliens from the United States,' but advocates have rightly raised a number of red flags about the program, chiefly that it has not effectively targeted criminal immigrants but instead focuses on deporting immigrants who have committed minor offenses, or none at all. More» |
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| DMI Op-Ed in the Albany Times Union: Gear up public transit funds By John Petro & Dan Morris | The Albany Times Union | August 26, 2010. Heading into the fall elections, state lawmakers don't want to talk about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and public transit. It's yet another fiscal crisis for which they bear a lot of responsibility. If they don't start addressing it soon, people across the state will be asked to pick up an increasingly hefty tab. More» |
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| Demonizing the public sector harms the middle class By Amy Traub | The Hill | August 26, 2010. The nation’s middle class is under attack. The recession hit private businesses and public budgets hard, but Americans’ ability to attain or hold onto a middle-class standard of living may be the ultimate victim. We’re losing jobs, losing services we depend on, losing pay and benefits. Yet instead of working to build up the middle class, a growing chorus of pundits insists that dragging down city and state workers across the country is the answer to our economic woes. Democratic mayors and governors fall for this ploy at their peril: it threatens the nation’s economic recovery, and feeds into conservatives’ anti-government, anti-worker agenda. More» |
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| A Push for Paid Sick Leave in PA and Philly By Jake Blumgart | The Philadelphia Inquirer | August 16, 2010. For almost half of Pennsylvania's workforce, the decision to take a sick day will come down to money. Business interests routinely oppose paid sick leave legislation, claiming that even modest benefits will harm the economy and kill jobs, but a recent study by the Drum Major Institute shows that paid sick leave isn't the job killer its opponents claim. More» |
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| Immigration and the Middle Class on Long Island With Long Island WINS, we released a Suffolk County Legislative Scorecard grading how legislators there voted during 2008 and 2009 on immigration and other issues that impact the middle class. Read the report, and check out the Newsday story. More» |
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| GOP Vilifies Workers Who Serve the Public By Fred Redmond | The Hill | August 12, 2010. For the past several months, the GOP has declared open season on the public service workers they so despise, portraying them as over paid and underworked. Amy Traub, Research Director for the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, wrote about the Republican assertions. “It would be an alarming story,” she said, “if it were true.” More» |
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| War on Public Workers In a piece for The Nation, which was later referenced by Ben Smith at Politico and posted on NPR, DMI's Amy Traub takes on the conservative assault on public sector workers, pointing out that the lavish lifestyle of public workers is a myth. In fact, state and local employees earn 11 to 12 percent less than comparable private sector workers. More» |
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| Shaping NYC’s Post-Recession Economic Agenda From Disaster to Diversity: What’s Next for New York City’s Economy?, reveals how to retain a vibrant financial sector and diversify the economy in ways that will drive job creation, spur growth, generate revenue, expand opportunity, and strengthen vulnerable communities. To order your copy, email dmi@drummajorinstitute.org. More» |
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| Living Wage Bill at City Hall A broad coalition of New York City Council Members, labor leaders, and advocates has rallied around a new living wage bill, as The New York Times, the Daily News, and The New York Observer report. At DMI's recent Marketplace of Ideas forum, City Council Member Melissa Mark-Viverito and Comptroller John Liu both expressed strong support for wage and job standards in private economic development projects subsidized with public money. Visit DMI's YouTube channel for more clips from the event. More» |
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