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Apply Now for the 2012 DMI Scholars Program 
Our two-week Summer Institute for DMI Scholars will be in New York City during Summer 2012. There, Scholars will learn to approach problems through a policy lens and meet people on the frontlines fighting for fair and just public policy. After our intensive summer training, we will help students throughout the year explore careers in this field through internships and follow-up trainings.
Download the application at http://bit.ly/DMIScholars2012. To apply, please send application materials to abranche@drummajorinstitute.org. Application deadline: January 31, 2012. 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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| New DMI Report - Vision Zero: How Safer Streets in New York City Can Save More Than 100 Lives a Year One New Yorker is killed every 35 hours in a traffic crash. And for every eight traffic fatalities, New Yorkers suffer one hundred life-altering serious injuries—nearly 34,000 over the past eight years. Despite decades of progress, traffic crashes still pose a risk to the health and safety of city residents on the same scale as gun violence. This new report, written by DMI & Transportation Alternatives, investigates New York City’s record on street safety and its recent efforts to improve it. More» |
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| DMI Report: Low-wage jobs dominate NYC job growth This report reveals the startling extent to which recent job growth in New York City has been dominated by the city’s lowest-paid industries. Our findings—based on the latest data from the New York State Department of Labor—illustrate the critical need for city policymakers to take direct action and boost wages for New York’s working families. More» |
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| More Than Spare Change: How NYC Scams City Street Vendors By Afton Branche | Huffington Post | May 26, 2011. New York is home to an estimated 10,000 street vendors, the vast majority of whom are immigrants from destinations like Bangladesh, Senegal and China. Life on the job for these workers is inherently tough; most vendors work grueling hours, rain or shine, and earn incredibly low wages that they use to support families at home and abroad. But the web of rules regulating the industry makes it even more difficult for street vendors to get ahead. More» |
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| Living Wage Is No Job Killer, New Study Argues By Chris Bragg | City Hall News | May 12, 2011. New York businesses are creating more low-income sector jobs as they emerge from the recession, and requiring higher wages won’t stop their growth, a new study contends. The report from the liberal Drum Major Institute tries to undercut the findings of a Bloomberg administration study that concluded the opposite, as both sides prepare for this afternoon’s City Council hearing on a proposed living wage mandate. More» |
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| 'Living wage' backers storm City Hall By Daniel Massey | Crain's New York Business | May 12, 2011. Proponents of a bill to mandate higher wages at city-subsidized projects took to the streets Thursday morning to call for its passage and to protest a city-funded study that found the measure would stifle development and job growth. John Petro, a senior policy analyst at the Drum Major Institute, a think tank focused on building the middle class, planned to testify that more than half of all jobs created in the city during the recovery have been in the two lowest-paid industries: retail and hospitality. More» |
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| DMI Report - The Cost of Failure: The Burden of Immigration Enforcement In America’s Cities As cities face massive budget shortfalls and struggle to preserve core services, one growing burden on our cities has gone largely unexamined: the local costs of enforcing the nation’s federal immigration laws. Our latest report focuses on three federal-local partnership programs that leverage urban resources in service of federal immigration enforcement goals. DMI finds that these programs impose high costs on city budgets and local economies, prove counterproductive to protecting public safety and draw support from a misguided understanding of the relationship between immigration and crime. More» |
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| A Statement from Martin Luther King III in Support of NYC Living Wage Bill On the anniversary of his father's assassination, DMI Board Member Martin Luther King III releases a statement urging the NYC Council to fulfill his father's dream and pass the living wage bill. He writes, 'Far too many working people in our communities and neighborhoods across this great country still earn poverty wages instead of living wages. This is a collective failure, and we must address it together as one nation.' More» |
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| DMI Testimony before the NYC Council: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town Walmart’s poor record on complying with labor laws and its ongoing sexual discrimination suit are troublesome enough, but are there any community benefits associated with the retail chain that will outweigh Walmart’s negative reputation? More» |
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