Report - January 2018
An Unhealthy Commute: The Transit Challenges Facing New York City’s Healthcare SectorSubway and bus service in the four boroughs outside Manhattan has not kept pace with massive increases in the number of healthcare employees living and working there. By partnering with hospitals and other health providers, New York City can develop solutions befitting the city’s world-class healthcare system and ensure that this critical source of employment and opportunity can continue to grow.
Commentary/Op-Ed - January 2018
Op-Ed: How To Prepare New Yorkers to Benefit from AmazonMany New Yorkers are worried that a new home base for the world’s largest internet company would be more burden than boon. But a bold proposal to land 50,000 good jobs deserves an equally ambitious plan to invest in the city’s workforce. New York should want Amazon’s jobs, while ensuring more New Yorkers get them.
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.