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Now on MayorTV: Mayor Rhine L. McLin of Dayton, Ohio After attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting in Miami three weeks ago, MayorTV launched a summer series of conversations with the nation’s mayors to press for a national conversation about urban issues in Election ’08. This week, MayorTV sits with Dayton Mayor Rhine L. McLin to talk about the foreclosure crisis, driving to work on minimum wage, first-tier suburbs and the tastes of today’s young people. 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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| Don't worry, says the American Enterprise Institute. Be happy! By Andrea Batista Schlesinger, TomPaine.com, July 15, 2008. I'm not surprised that the new head of the American Enterprise Institute is an expert on happiness. They must need a dose. More» |
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| Can We Talk About Poverty? By Corinne Ramey, TomPaine.com, July 14, 2008. Last Wednesday, I saw John Edwards speak during a press conference at the Yorkville Common Pantry, a food pantry and soup kitchen in Harlem. Although Edwards tried his best to talk about poverty, the press just didn't seem to care. More» |
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| Death on a Hospital Floor By Kia Franklin, Washington Post's The Root, July 7, 2008. You'd think after Beatrice Vance of Illinois and Edith Isabel Rodriguez of California both died on the ER waiting room floor while hospital staff just looked on, that maybe hospitals would be on red alert to avoid this type of bad publicity—not to mention the loss of human life. But now there is the story of Esmin Green, 49, of New York. She, too, died on the hospital waiting room floor while patients and hospital staff looked on. More» |
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| Women's Equality Event Clips on YouTube! On Monday, June 23 an esteemed panel of women including Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney; Hon. Christine Quinn, New York City Council Speaker; Diana Salas, Associate Director of the Women of Color Policy Network; Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, President and CEO of American Association of Publishers, Inc.; Olga Vives, Executive Vice President of the National Organization for Women; and Lisa Witter, Chief Operating Officer, Fenton Communications joined DMI to discuss the status of women in society and the policies necessary to close the gender gap. Missed the event? Watch video clips on YouTube now!You can also read blog coverage of the event on the DMIBlog. More» |
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| MayorTV at the U.S. Conference of Mayors MayorTV sat down with mayors from ten diverse cities to talk about the need for a national urban agenda and to hear about some of the innovative solutions mayors have developed to confront problems as varied as immigration, the foreclosure crisis, and retaining young people in inner cities. Watch video of interviews with Mayor Douglas Wilder of Richmond, Virginia; Mayor Martin J. Chavez of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Mayor Karl Dean of Nshville, Tennessee and Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann now on MayorTV. You can also read blog coverage of the U.S. Conference of Mayors on the DMIBlog. More» |
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| DMI in the News: An Inadequate Analysis of Assimilation By Cristina Jimenez, El Diario, June 12, 2008. The complex debate on immigration has been full of myths about the assimilation of today’s immigrant population. They don’t want to learn English. They don’t want to learn American ways. Is it true? Are they assimilating, or aren’t they? While some elements of this question are clear, a new study proposes an analysis of immigrant assimililation anchored in certain measurements. More» |
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| Watch Paid Sick Leave Clips on YouTube! Sara Flocks, who helped to pass San Francisco's first-in-the-nation paid sick leave law, spoke at DMI's Marketplace of Ideas event on paid sick leave. The panel included Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, the Co-sponsor of the Healthy Families Act, a national paid sick leave bill, New York City Councilwoman Gale Brewer, and David R. Jones, President & CEO of the Community Service Society of New York. Go to DMI's YouTube channel to watch clips of the event. More» |
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| Redefining 'Disability' for the Benefit of Workers By Arlene M. Roberts, The Huffington Post, June 17, 2008. Recently I attended a panel discussion Mandating Paid Sick Leave featuring Sara Flocks and sponsored by the Drum Major Institute here in New York City. Paid sick leave has been a hot button issue. According to a policy report recently released by the Mobility Agenda, no federal or state laws exist to guarantee that employers offer paid sick days. More» |
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| DMI In the News: Gas tax holiday vs. unemployment benefits? By Amy Traub, metro New York & metro Boston, May 27, 2008. In reality, the proposal for a gas tax “holiday” would do little to help Americans. Meanwhile, policies that would boost the economy get little airtime. Consider the proposal to extend benefits for unemployed workers, left on the cutting-room floor when Congress passed its stimulus bill. More» |
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