Our panels and events featuring Martin Luther King III discussing stop-and-frisk and voting policies have received nationwide coverage: The Village Voice; Capital New York; The Nation; Forest Hills Patch; The Bridgeport News; Associated Press; …
The Road to Nowhere: How the Misclassification of Truck Drivers Hurts Workers, Job Quality, and New York State
by John Petro
A new DMI report on the mistreatment of workers in the truck transportation industry finds that the rights and protections of truck drivers are routinely flouted in New York State. This report uncovers the extent to which …
DMI in the Gotham Gazette
The following piece by DMI's John Petro made the Gotham Gazette's top stories of 2011:
Wall Street bankers may have breathed a sigh of relief upon the clearing of Zuccotti Park, but as warm weather returns to New York the Occupy movement--or some new variation of it--will once again take to the streets of New York City and the capitol to shed light on worsening inequality and the indefensible concentration of wealth among the state's wealthiest. New mass protests in 2012--routinely numbering in the tens of thousands--will dwarf this past Autumn's marches in Lower Manhattan, and Democrats all across the country will benefit from the national attention on issues of inequality, economic justice, and fairness.
DMI’s John Petro on WNYC
Last Thursday, DMI's urban policy analyst John Petro was a guest on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show discussing Governor Cuomo's tax plan and how it will negatively affect the middle class and city services while benefitting the wealthy. Click here to listen to the episode
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