Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab

Join the roll-out of "The Status of Child Care in New York State" on March 8, 2024 from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Crane Library, 633 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222, second floor. The program will include a presentation on the state of child care in New York State by Dr. Rusty Weaver and Dr. Steve Peraza. Speakers include child care workers, parents, and partners like the Western New York Child Care Action Team, WNY Women's Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and The John R. Oishei Foundation. Community members will comment on how the child care issue is compounding its employer member shortages. Senator Jabari Brisport, Chair of Committee on Children and Families, Assemblymember Monica Wallace, and additional representatives of the Western New York Delegation will share their feedback and insights as well.

This event is free, open to the public.

Join us tomorrow at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site from 6-7pm for Speaker Nite with Dr. Mildred Warner on Local Leadership in Addressing Challenges of Climate Change, Aging and Equity, Learn more and register:

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Cathy Creighton, director of ILR's Buffalo Co-Lab, says that Starbucks airing their labor law violations publicly “will tarnish their brand, and when it tarnishes their brand, it will hurt their bottom dollar, and then they’ll stop doing it. They’re not going to stop doing it unless someone stops them.”

Starbucks won’t admit to breaking the law by union busting Longtime CEO Howard Shultz testified before a Senate committee as the company’s labor violations stack up.

The Cornell ILR Eviction Filings Dashboard for New York is a new tool from Russell Weaver, director of research at the Buffalo Co-Lab. The dashboard is designed to help citizens, policymakers and nonprofits more easily visualize where eviction filings have occurred since 2018, their frequency and how filing patterns have changed over time.

“In a nutshell, the biggest cost facing working families across NYS is housing, and housing costs have been rising rapidly in recent years,” said Weaver. “The lack of living wage earnings across the state that our Wage Atlas reveals, combined with rapidly rising housing costs -- all happening at the same time the statewide COVID eviction moratorium expired -- is leading to increased interest in eviction across the state and the impacts it will have on NYS communities and the state economy.”

The eviction dashboard project is part of the public impact mission and “data democratization” initiative at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Ty787b

Just like High Road Fellows make a big difference, any donation does too! Consider celebrating our 15 year anniversary with a $15, $115, or other donation.

First time donors get their donation MATCHED!

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Our latest collaborative policy brief with Partnership for the Public Good looks at the impact of raising the minimum wage in WNY, especially for workers who are women, people of color, and immigrants. Learn more at http://bit.ly/3l2qfcf + at // !

Or you can explore the interactive Cornell ILR Wage Atlas: https://blogs.cornell.edu/livingwage/

Strikers Winning Concessions: “If there’s nobody in line to take your job because there are just not enough people, that gives you incredible strength in striking,” says Cathy Creighton

U.S. labor strikes went up almost 50% between 2021 and 2022 Cornell University counted almost 400 strikes last year, following decades of declining union membership. Here's why labor action is becoming more common.

Building a Clean Energy Economy To combat climate change, we need to invest heavily in developing and retaining a well-trained, highly qualified workforce to install renewable energy sources, retrofit buildings, expand public transportation, and take on other critical tasks. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides a once-in-a-g...