This Week’s Top Hits

This op-ed mentions a report produced by the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab that details the status of child care in New York State.

"Prospect Medical's bankruptcy is just another in a stream of failures involving sale-leaseback agreements with REITs," said Profesor Rosemary Batt. "Private equity firms enter into these agreements because the onerous conditions are put on the hospitals, while the PE firms will exit in a five-year window."

“Prospect’s sale-leaseback rental payments were unsustainable,” said Professor Rosemary Batt. “Hospitals that sell their property to REITs in sale-leaseback agreements are doomed to failure ...”

Russell Weaver, director of research at the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, discusses unemployment rates.

Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor at ILR, said data shows that though more people are still working from home than they did before.

Harry Katz, professor of collective bargaining, discusses a potential port worker's strike.