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Minimum Wage Increase Yields Positives: Report

Increasing the Tompkins County minimum wage of $16.61 to a living wage would increase earnings for thousands of workers and reduce racial and gender disparities, according to a new Ithaca Co-Lab report.
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Minimum Wage Increase Yields Positives: Report

Dashboard Details Surge in NYS Eviction Filings

Cornell Chronicle
As part of its on-going public impact mission and “data democratization” initiative, the Buffalo Co-Lab has launched the Cornell ILR Eviction Filings Dashboard for New York, a tool designed to help citizens, policymakers and nonprofits more easily visualize where eviction filings have occurred since 2018.
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Dashboard Details Surge in NYS Eviction Filings

Living Wage Study Reveals Racial Disparities

Ian Greer, Ithaca Co-Lab director and other ILR researchers have found that living wage legislation would have a dramatic impact on the earnings of many Black workers in Tompkins County.
A graphic showing how living wage connects to basic needs
Living Wage Study Reveals Racial Disparities

New research project on autoworkers and electric vehicles

The shift to electric vehicles will destroy unionized jobs, and the quality of the jobs being created and the severity of the disruption to the lives of autoworkers remain to be seen. How can there be a ‘just transition’ that protects autoworkers and creates good jobs?
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New research project on autoworkers and electric vehicles