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No Economic Recovery Without Cities: The Urgency Of A New Federal Urban Policy
President Obama’s newly created White House Office of Urban Affairs presents a new opportunity for federal urban policy. The Office of Urban Affairs provides an opportunity to maximize the economic potential of cities


through well-coordinated, productive relationships with the federal government. DMI offers a number of policy principles to guide the Office’s efforts to develop a strategy for metropolitan America. More»

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• Opening weekend box office gross of Oliver Stone’s Bush biopic “W”: $10.6 million
• Opening weekend box office gross of Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 911, which intensely criticized the Bush Administration: $23.9 million
• Number of days during his presidency that Bush spent on vacation at either Camp David or his Texas ranch, as of August 2008 (including partial days off): 916
• Total number of years in Bush’s presidency, if these vacation days are subtracted: 5.5
• Proportion of U.S. workers who have no paid vacations or holidays at work: 1 in 4
• Date on which President Bush received a presidential daily briefing entitled “Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S.” while in the midst of a month-long vacation: 8/6/2001
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Should Congress Pass the Employee Free Choice Act?
The Drum Major Institute says yes. Director of Research Amy Traub argues in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the Employee Free Choice Act will create lasting benefits for working people by making it easier to organize and bargain collectively.
 
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DMI Reacts to Albany in USA TODAY
By Martha T. Moore | USA TODAY | July 1, 2009. Communications Director Dan Morris talks to USA TODAY about the effects of the havoc in Albany on ordinary people. Read more about New Yorkers missing out as the gridlock wears on.  More»
Mark Winston Griffith on the EFCA
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Answers Can Be Found In Questions
By Gregory Rodriguez | Los Angeles Times | June 29, 2009. Quick access to facts has made us too impatient to engage in lengthy deliberation, 'deep inquiry' or discernment. In her new book, 'The Death of Why?,' Batista Schlesinger -- until recently, the executive director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy in New York -- makes a passionate case for inquiry qua inquiry. She links the future of the American experiment to the extent to which we teach our children how to ask questions.  More»
Changing the Climate for Cities?
By Harry Moroz | Huffington Post | June 24, 2009. While most of the country tries to figure out what health insurance exchanges and health insurance cooperatives are (and what exactly South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford was doing in Argentina), Speaker Pelosi snuck game-changing climate change legislation onto the House of Representatives calendar for passage Friday.  More»
Summer in the City – Not on the Road - for Stimulus Supervisors
Public News Service | June 22, 2009. Harry Moroz, a research associate at the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, is the co-author of a report arguing that a past history of urban neglect threatens the national economic recovery. He says the White House should be setting up stimulus accountability outposts to serve cities like Syracuse and Schenectady, Buffalo and Brooklyn.  More»
'No Economic Recovery Without Cities' Drum Major Institute Warns In New Report
By Paul Rosenberg | Open Left | June 21, 2009. Fragmentation of authority, planning and execution have been endemic to urban policy for the better part of four decades. A new report from the Drum Major Institute--'No Economic Recovery Without Cities: The Urgency Of A New Federal Urban Policy'--sounds a clarion call for dramatically turning that around, while also focusing efforts to ensure maximum impact from the existing federal stimulus.  More»
Sara Flocks on Paid Sick Leave

For more, read the transcript of DMI’s paid sick leave Marketplace of Ideas Event.  More»
Why the MTA is Broken
By Danny Valdes & Arun Gupta | The Indypendent | June 5, 2009. The next time you purchase a monthly Metrocard, which is slated to increase to $89 at the end of June, think about this: Almost one-third of the money you spend — about $29 — will go to service the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s massive $26.8 billion debt.  More»
DMI in The City Politic
By Chris Smith | New York Magazine | May 17, 2009. The Drum Major Institute is the rare New York outfit to have wrestled with what a revamped progressive agenda might look like.  More»

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