impact - April 2013
CUF Influences Speaker Quinn’s New Transportation ProposalsCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a series of new proposals to improve mass transit in New York City. Three of the proposals were influenced by our 2011 Behind the Curb report which found that New York City’s public transit service has not kept pace with recent job growth and transit ridership gains.
Data - April 2013
Low-Wage Jobs, 2012Over the past five years, the number of New Yorkers who work in low-wage jobs has steadily increased, with more than a third of adults in the city—and nearly half in the Bronx—now stuck in low-paying occupations.
impact - April 2013
CUF Report About NYC’s Libraries Sparks New Proposal From Speaker QuinnCity Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced a new proposal to harness the incredible power of New York City's branch libraries. The proposal was sparked by our January 2013 Branches of Opportunity report about the increasingly important role that the city's public libraries are playing in communities around the five boroughs.
impact - March 2013
CUF Influences New York’s First-in-the-Nation Move to Abandon the GED®The NYS Education Department became the first state in the nation to drop the GED® following Center efforts to explore alternative high school equivalency providers.
Data - March 2013
Is Manufacturing Back in Brooklyn?Like the rest of New York City, Brooklyn has been bleeding manufacturing jobs for decades. But in the last few years, manufacturing employment in the borough is up slightly, even though the average company now has considerably fewer employees on average. Is Brooklyn in a new age of entrepreneurial manufacturing?
Data - March 2013
New York’s New Business BoomNearly twice as many new businesses were started in the five boroughs in 2011 than in 1991, and the lion’s share were started outside of Manhattan.
