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Category: Economy

Change Maker: Katherine Mella, MIT Community Innovators Lab and the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative

October 3, 2018  Elizabeth DeWolf
  • Change Maker
  • Economy

The Bronx is home to some of the city’s most important institutions and industry hubs, such as the Bronx Zoo, the Bronx Botanical Gardens, many world-class hospitals and universities, and Hunt’s Point Terminal Market. Collectively, these institutions buy goods and…

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First National Evictions Database Sheds New Light on Affordable Housing Crisis

April 26, 2018  Jocelyn Drummond
  • Economy
  • Housing
  • Services

Across the United States, an estimated 3.7 million renters have faced eviction from their homes. In many of these cases, eviction is the result of missed rent payments. In some cases, landlords evict tenants because of property damage or other…

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Change Maker: Dr. Teresa Boyer, Executive Director, Rutgers Center for Women and Work

May 5, 2017  Margaret Michaels
  • Change Maker
  • Economy
  • Education

Although it has been nearly 100 years since the 19th Amendment was passed guaranteeing women the right to vote, the fight for equal rights persists. The issues of today include winning equal pay, paid maternity leave, and family leave for…

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Disconnected Youth: Fiction vs. Reality for Youth Not in School and Not Working

March 24, 2017  Margaret Michaels
  • Economy
  • Education

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is one of my all-time favorite movies. If you haven’t seen it, Ferris, played by a young Matthew Broderick, fakes illness for a day off from school. Ferris and his friends use the day off to…

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Change Maker: Chris Barrett, Resiliency Coordinator, Nazareth Housing

February 7, 2017  Margaret Michaels
  • Change Maker
  • Economy
  • Housing

Housing and homelessness are on many New Yorkers’ minds when it comes to inequality. Both this year and last, housing or homelessness were cited as a major concern: 14.8% of ISLG public survey participants responded that they was their largest…

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New York City’s Commitment to Immigrants

January 31, 2017  Margaret Michaels
  • Economy
  • Education

When my parents met in 1971, it was a true New York City love story. My father, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, grew up in the Bronx and was the first of his family to graduate from college, attending CUNY’s…

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Change Maker: Sarbjit “Sab” Singh, Assistant Professor, Sports Management, Farmingdale State College & Publisher, Sports Doing Good

January 23, 2017  Margaret Michaels
  • Change Maker
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Health
  • Services

Exercise is an important measure of well-being. But in New York City, the Equality Indicators has found those at the bottom end of the income ladder are less likely to exercise than more affluent individuals. All age groups benefit from…

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Change Maker: Angel Falcon, Outreach Librarian, Bronx Community College

January 3, 2017  Margaret Michaels
  • Change Maker
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Justice
  • Services

Change Maker: Angel Falcon, Outreach Librarian, Bronx Community College Launched in January 2015, IDNYC is now the nation’s largest municipal ID program, with more than 863,464 cardholders in the five boroughs of NYC. Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYC…

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Economic Inequality Tops Concerns of New Yorkers

December 21, 2016  Shawnda Chapman Brown
  • Economy
  • Housing
  • Services

In 2016, the Equality Indicators found that economic inequality was New York City residents’ biggest inequality concern. As part of the ISLG public survey, which was conducted specifically to inform the Equality Indicators, we asked 3,003 New Yorkers to describe…

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The Women Who Shape Our Cities

December 19, 2016  Bijan Kimiagar
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Health
  • Justice

Whenever I see a panoramic photograph of New York City, I strain my eyes to find people walking the streets and pathways deep within the chasms between skyscrapers and along the historic bridges. This is where city life happens; this…

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