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Using the Pension Fund to Close the City’s Budget Gap

We are excited to share insights from our economic policy team as they relate to the latest city news. David A. Lee, CNYCA's fiscal policy analyst, writes why Mayor Mamdani’s executive budget proposal ...
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Reaching Independent Providers: Reimagining Networks and Contracts for Universal Child Care in NYC

The architecture of universal child care, a core campaign promise of Mayor Mamdani, is being set in New York City today. But for many child care providers, the current system doesn’t work well enough ...
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Moving Beyond Colas to Salary Parity for New York City's Nonprofit Human Service Workers

This report documents the troubling racial and gender pay inequities that confront the 80,000 plus nonprofit workers providing human services under New York City government contracts. This workforce ...
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Introducing a Universal Child Care Cost Model for New York

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul made a commitment to universal child care this year and took initial steps toward this bold objective in the State and City FY2027 budgets. That included ...
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Labor, Capital, and Inequality in New York: A Functional Income Approach

New York City is facing a political and economic moment defined by a basic contradiction. It is one of the richest local economies in the United States, but gains from that wealth are not broadly ...
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Scrapping the SHSAT: Breaking Down Who Would Be Affected, And How

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposal to end use of the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) would make the city’s most elite public high schools more racially and ethnically diverse. The mayor’s ...
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In NYC, Waymo Comes to a Stop. What’s Ahead for Driverless Cars?

We are excited to begin sharing insights from our economic policy team as they relate to the latest city news. Jaylexia Clark, CNYCA's labor market analyst, writes why Waymo's pause on testing ...
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NYC’s Education Panel Now Flexes Its Muscles. City Hall: It’s Your Move.

Despite that, and even after more than nine months at City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s public school agenda remains in many respects a surprisingly blank slate. But the odds of that continuing seem ...
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City FY2027 Budget Estimate: City Must Address Child Care Budget Gap for Low-Income Families and Low-Wage Workers

The State Fiscal Year 2027 (SFY2027) budget was passed with a historic, $4.5 billion statewide investment in child care. These investments, however, are skewed towards expanding services to families ...
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Cash Assistance rolls have risen sharply in New York City as a result of the uneven employment recovery and the end of various forms of pandemic economic assistance

The national Covid-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration ends today, May 11, 2023. While the coronavirus is still a serious public health issue and the federal Centers for Disease Control and ...
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Justice Arrives for New York’s Deliveristas. Now, What About Workers Everywhere Else?

On September 22nd, New York City announced a groundbreaking $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash. The largest such resolution in city history, the case involved over 260,000 workers who were paid ...