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Halting the Hidden Crime Wave This week Senator Diane Savino and Assemblyman Carl Heastie introduced the Wage Theft Prevention Act, which would stiffen penalties for cheating employees out of wages, encourages workers to come forward, and provides new avenues for investigating and prosecuting wage theft cases - and ensuring violators will pay up. DMI's Amy Traub outlines the bill's importance over at Huffington Post. 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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| 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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| Nets Break Ground By John Del Signore | Gothamist | March 12, 2010. In a thorough takedown of the development, urban policy analyst John Petro says, 'it is now unclear if and when the affordable housing will be built.' And 'while the amount of public tax dollars going to subsidize the project has more than doubled, from $100 million to at least $205 million, the amount of tax revenue that the project was estimated to generate for the city and state has shrunk by half a billion dollars.' More» |
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| Food NYC Mark Winston Griffith joins Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer on The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss food deserts in New York City and what the city can do about them. More» |
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| A Sad Day for Brooklyn By John Petro | Huffington Post | March 11, 2010. In theory, it should be everything that a progressive urban policy analyst like me would want from a new development. But, somehow, Atlantic Yards developer Forest City Ratner got it all wrong. More» |
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| You and What Armey? By Harry Moroz | Huffington Post | March 10, 2010. Former House Majority Leader and presumed head of the Tea Party movement Dick Armey should perhaps be congratulated for excommunicating the anti-immigrant zealot Tom Tancredo. More» |
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| Reaching for a dream The Philadelphia Inquirer urges Congress to pass the DREAM Act in staff editorial following a DMI report that finds the legislation would boost the middle class. More» |
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| Immigration Reform in 2010: A Limited Time Offer By Afton Branche | Huffington Post | March 5, 2010. President Obama met with members of his Domestic Policy Council to discuss how to move forward with a comprehensive reform of our federal immigration system. The LA Times reports that the White House may recruit Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to craft a 'blueprint' that could be used for legislation. Ultimately, Obama will leave it up to Congress to overhaul our immigration laws. More» |
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| No More Contracts with the Devil! By Amy Traub | Huffington Post | March 3, 2010. Want to pay your employees less than it takes to support a family, force Medicaid and hospital emergency rooms to pay for their health care, and break a few labor laws to push costs down further? You may be able to get away with it - but you can damn well do it without relying on taxpayer dollars to stay in business. More» |
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| DMI in The Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal features a recent DMI report on how cities fare in President Obama's 2011 budget. The piece highlights our finding that federal aid in the budget falls short of the deficits cities will face in the coming years. More» |
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| A Double-Edged Sword for GOP Governors By Harry Moroz | The Atlantic | March 1, 2010. There's a problem with this campaign rhetoric: it will lose its power as soon as governors enter office and start juggling the tasks of taxing and spending that are part of the job. Take Florida Governor Charlie Crist, once the heavily favored Republican nominee for Senate in the Sunshine State. Crist has suffered tremendously because of his support for President Obama's economic stimulus package. More» |
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| Bringing Back Congestion Pricing Our report, The Urgency of Resurrecting Congestion Pricing in New York has received coverage in the New York Daily News and several TV stations. And the Working Families Party has announced a grassroots campaign to prevent the massive fare hikes predicted by the report. More» |
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| Obama puts the feds’ weight behind smart growth By Elana Schor | Grist | February 24, 2010. John Petro, urban policy analyst at the nonprofit Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, offered a consciously pragmatic take on what the Partnership for Sustainable Communities can achieve during an economic downturn. More» |
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| DMI's Harry Moroz in POLITICO By Nia-Malika Henderson | POLITICO | February 19, 2010. While 'the first lady can't make up for what the White House Office of Urban Affairs is not doing,' says Harry Moroz, 'the more the first lady talks about model local policies, the more cities will be seen as problem solvers, instead of problems.' More» |
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| Economic Development for the Middle Class By Selena Ross | City Hall News | February 17, 2010. Urban policy analyst John Petro cautions against rhetoric that calls to scale back development in general when the city has a shortage of housing for the middle class. More» |
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