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impact - January 2010

Bloomberg Administration Adopts CUF Recommendation for Improving Street Fairs

In 2006, the Center published "Rethinking New York's Street Fairs," a report which urged the city to make major changes to street fairs held in the five boroughs. Last week, the Bloomberg administration embraced a major recommendation.

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Report - December 2009

Low-Wage Jobs

This edition of New York by the Numbers reveals that nearly a third of all adult workers in New York City are employed in low-wage jobs. While the percentage of low-wage workers is high across the city, the Bronx is in a league of its own, with 42 percent of the borough's workers in low-wage jobs.

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Commentary/Op-Ed - December 2009

Immigrant Entrepreneurism: An Engine for Economic Recovery

In this essay for the new book What's Next for New York City's Economy, published by the Drum Major Institute, CUF's Jonathan Bowles argues that New York's economic development officials should look to immigrant entrepreneurs to provide a key spark to the city's economic recovery.

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impact - December 2009

Governor’s Task Force Embraces CUF’s Recommendations on Bolstering New York’s Innovation Economy

The Center's Building New York City's Innovation Economy report found that while New York is home to several of the world's leading scientific research institutions, these universities and research centers have not become powerful catalysts for entrepreneurship and local economic development the way similar institutions have in several other regions. A state task force created by Governor Paterson and chaired by Cornell president David Skorton reached many of the same conclusions and embraced several of the report's recommendations.

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Commentary/Op-Ed - November 2009

Community Colleges as a Pathway out of Poverty

In this guest commentary to Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, CUF's David Jason Fischer stresses the importance of boosting community college persistence and graduation rates, and notes several promising strategies toward this goal.

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Testimony - October 2009

Translating New York’s Science and Technology Assets Into Economic Activity

At an October 9th hearing held by the Governor’s Task Force on Diversifying the New York State Economy through Industry-Higher Education Partnerships, CUF’s Jonathan Bowles testified about how to make New York’s pre-eminent scientific research institutions engines of entrepreneurship and economic growth.

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