Commentary/Op-Ed - January 2018
Op-Ed: Taking on Rochester’s College Success ProblemGraduation rates are alarmingly low at community colleges in Rochester and surrounding counties, and they are making very little progress. College leaders are already developing new models to support student success, but they need state backing to scale up their best ideas.
Commentary/Op-Ed - January 2018
Op-Ed: Putting Automation on the Mayor’s AgendaA fully automated city may still be more science fiction than fact, but era-defining changes are already here. The city must prepare for the wave of automation or be left in its wake.
Report - January 2018
Work to Do: How Automation Will Transform Jobs in NYCIn a first-of-its-kind analysis, CUF studied the automation potential of every occupation in New York City, evaluating the likelihood that a machine could perform each job’s component tasks and revealing which ones are most likely to be done by machines in the decades to come.
Report - December 2017
State of the Chains, 2017Our 10th annual ranking of national retailers in New York City shows that the number of chain store locations across the city increased for the ninth year in a row, but fewer chains have expanded this year than in the past.
Report - December 2017
Struggling to the Finish Line: Community College Completion in New York StateWhile a college credential has become the single most important platform for the middle class today, only one in four New York State residents who enroll in the state’s community colleges end up earning a degree.
Commentary/Op-Ed - December 2017
Assessing NYC’s Plan to Create 100,000 Good JobsMayor de Blasio deserves credit for developing a plan to create 100,000 good jobs. But a recent CUF forum made it clear that there are several other promising ideas that, if added to the city’s plan, could bolster middle class job creation and help more low-income New Yorkers access them.
