Economy
City, State Tax Credits Boosted Health in Low-Income Neighborhoods
Jarrett Murphy |
A study finds that state and city increases in the Earned Income Tax Credit improved birth-weight in low-income neighborhoods.
Economy
Who Dies at Work in New York?
Jarrett Murphy |
A decline in construction worker deaths is part of a general trend in New York City and state of reduced fatalities at the workplace, where violence is as big a killer as falls.
The Work Site
Empire State Added 30K Jobs in December
Jarrett Murphy |
Only Texas saw the ranks of the employed grow more at the end of 2014.
The Work Site
New York Remains Most Unionized State
Jarrett Murphy |
The share of workers represented by unions fell slightly across the country in 2014 but remained steady in New York, which leads the nation in the percentage of employees claimed by organized labor.
The Work Site
City’s Rights Commission Has Low Profile, Offers Protection
Jarrett Murphy |
From firms that advertised for female workers to an employer who targeted a worker for harassment because of her religion, dozens of companies paid four- and five-figure sums last year on the orders of the city’s Human Rights Commission.
The Work Site
Europe Has Caught Cold. Will NYC Job Market Sneeze?
Jarrett Murphy |
Living as we do in a global financial capital that attracts loads of tourists, you don’t need to resort to chaos theory to wonder if events across the pond could affect prospects here.
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Will the State Wage Board Listen to Harvey Keitel?
Jarrett Murphy |
A push to address the very low minimum wage of tipped workers recalls the exchange between Mr. White and Mr. Pink.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Budget Must Address Low Wages of Social Service Workers
Jeff Foreman |
For six years, the lowest paid human-service workers in New York State have not had a cost of living adjustment, meaning their real wages have shrunk by nearly 12 percent. Is this the year Albany finally wakes up to that injustice?
CITY WIRE: THE BLOG
Call for A Wage-Theft Crackdown
Jarrett Murphy |
Advocates for low-wage workers say the state isn’t doing enough to hunt down scofflaw employers.
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Wage Theft Case Grinds On
Tobias Salinger |
Authorities found that a Williamsburg construction company owed its workers $500,000, but no one’s been paid yet. Advocates blame enforcement delays on overburdened state inspectors.
