News — Workforce

Testimony: Low-Wage Immigrant Workers and the COVID-19 Recovery

Immigrants make up around 43 percent of the city’s four-million strong workforce. While they are employed in a wide range of industries, they comprise a majority of the frontline essential workers who continued to operate in-person throughout the pandemic.

What Does Congestion Pricing Mean for Outer-Borough New Yorkers in Poverty?

As the MTA reviews the environmental benefits of congestion pricing, including its prospective effects on low-income communities and people of color, we have updated our 2017 analysis using more current 2015-2019 American Community Survey Five-Year data available from the Census Bureau.

Testimony: How to Strengthen Workers’ Rights Across the New York City Workforce

For most of the past half century, workers’ rights and workplace protections have been sacrificed by corporations seeking to maximize their bottom lines. The result is ballooning inequality as corporate owners have been able to keep an increasing share of the fruits of workers’ productivity as profits, enriching themselves.

Testimony: Formalizing the Street Vending Industry in Large Cities

Street vendors are New York State’s smallest businesses, and they are an essential part of New York City’s cultural ecosystem and economy. Nearly 20,000 entrepreneurs, primarily immigrants, people of color, military veterans and women, are engaged in street vending, many existing as part of a shadow economy of workers unable to acquire necessary business licensing to legitimize their business.

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