After years of austerity and a crippling pandemic, City University of New York is struggling to get students the choice of classwork they want.
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Posted inHousing
Missed Measurement: We Have No Idea How Many Evictions There Are
There is no federal data on evictions, keeping policymakers blind during a moment of uncertainty.
Posted inHousing
America’s Hidden Fire Kindling
Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can a Billionaire’s Son Save Local Media—and a City?
A community news service in New York’s Hudson Valley is finding out the hard way.
Posted inWorking in America
How Farmworkers Are Organizing to Close the Wage Gap
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights has been delayed.
Posted inWorking in America
Ron Kim Targets a New York Progressive Heavyweight in Allegations of Wage Theft
Kim accuses the Chinese-American Planning Council of rampant wage theft—and, in coordination with 1199SEIU, of blocking workers’ access to the courts.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Democrats Try Again to End Some Fossil Fuel Subsidies
The state spends $1.6 billion a year subsidizing oil and gas. Lawmakers are trying to eliminate about one-fifth of that spending.
Posted inWorking in America
Will Starbucks Bargain With Its Baristas, or Just Pretend To?
Many newly unionized employers go discreetly AWOL (or worse) when it comes to negotiating a first contract. Coffee drinkers shouldn’t let Starbucks get away with that.
Posted inEducation in America
The Ivy League’s Legitimacy Crisis
Columbia University’s incredible profit bonanza after the pandemic is indicative of a wider problem.
Posted inWorking in America
Just How Exceptional Are the Buffalo Baristas?
They’ve unionized one Starbucks. They symbolize a fed-up proletariat. But does their victory portend anything further?
