The Faculty Journal series features commissioned opinion and commentary pieces by the Hunter College community on Public Policy and Human Rights topics. (The writing and opinions expressed herein are those of the authors… 
PDF version of this article. This issue brief is the third in a series on Advancing Policy to Support Workers with Disabilities. This Roosevelt House series, edited by Professor…
PDF version of this article. Introduction Disability due to musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions is a serious and growing problem among American workers. Since 1981, the number of individuals with MSK…
“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” (Pledge of Allegiance, Original Version, Bellamy, 1892) If…
The bitterly fought 2016 presidential election campaign ended with Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory over Hillary Clinton, which highlighted a deeply divided nation along race, class, and gender lines. It…
Sanford Schram, Roosevelt House Faculty Associate, Professor of Political Science and instructor in the Public Policy Program at Roosevelt House, has co-written a new article on “Trump’s Low-Information Voters” for the…
A few weeks ago, at the beginning of August 2016, the 41st precinct in the South Bronx hosted a summer barbecue. My family and I live only a few blocks…
On June 23, 2016, Britain voted to leave the European Union. “Leave” won despite the opposition of every major party leader, and dire warnings from economists. In the United States…
“There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery.” -Angela Davis “America is a divided nation,…
Fifty two years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted his Nobel Peace Prize Award on behalf of 22 million African-Americans in the civil rights movement “engaged in a creative…
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