January 14, 2014 By Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D. During the recent mayoral race in New York City, Mayor Elect DeBlasio made an issue out of income inequality. For market purists,
December 24, 2013 By Marc Bussanich New York, NY—Childcare researchers, activists and unionized childcare workers from New York and Canada discussed ways last week on how they can work with
December 23, 2013 By Neal Tepel New York, NY – The utilization of InBloom to store student data is a concern to many. This cloud storing of student information serves
December 20, 2013 By Stephanie West New York, NY – A broad coalition of prominent New Yorkers and business, civic, non-profit, clergy, and academic leaders launched UPKNYC: The Campaign's goal
December 19, 2013 By Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education The Governor’s plan for $2 billion in election-year tax cuts and giveaways shows just how out
December 16, 2013 By Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D. The unemployment rate in December fell to 7.0 percent, but that figure is misleading. The jobless rate is most likely higher because
December 13, 2013 By Steven Wishnia By a margin of 620 to 10, graduate-student employees at New York University voted to rejoin the United Auto Workers Dec. 10-11. The vote
December 10, 2013 By Marc Bussanich Newark, NJ—Around the country on Monday numerous teacher union members rallied in cities and towns to protest public school budget cuts, decaying facilities and
Decmeber 6, 2013 By Oren Levin-Waldman Minimum wage arguments centered on employment or poverty both miss the point. Opponents argue the standard model that raising the minimum will lead to
November 25, 2013 By Randy Weingarten, AFT President Washington DC —The action by Senate Democrats is a last resort to help our government function. Between filibusters, government shutdowns and holding
