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DMI Releases First Annual Survey On The Middle Class And Public Policy The poll finds that middle-class “fearful families” are largely united on which public policies they want enacted by the President and Congress, but remain shockingly unfamiliar with what is going on in Washington. More> |
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| Middle Class Supports Progressive Policy Andrea Batista Schlesinger talks about the results of the latest DMI poll on YouTube. 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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| Sept. 15 in the Marketplace: Guaranteeing Paid Family Leave with Gov. Jon Corzine Join DMI the morning of Monday, Sept. 15 for a panel discussion on paid family leave, featuring New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine. This past May, Gov. Corzine signed New Jersey’s family leave insurance bill into law, making New Jersey only the third state nationwide to guarantee paid family leave. Find out what New York, and the nation, can learn from New Jersey about paid family leave. Speakers include: Donna Dolan, Chair of the New York State Paid Family Leave Coalition; M. Patricia Smith, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Labor; Ana L. Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women’s Foundation; and Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the Working Families Party. 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; Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and Dayton Mayor Rhine L. McLin 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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