Introduction With my students at Hunter College, we combed through MTA open data to determine if trucks were avoiding the congestion charge and driving through the Bronx and/or Staten Island… 
Health policies should be based on facts, not politics. Unfortunately, the opposite seems to be the trend. Policies don’t always match up with the facts, especially when it comes to…
Imagine that one day, you are evicted from your home. Now miles away from the neighborhood you once were, you look to do everything right all over again, updating your…
New York City is undergoing a crisis: an affordable housing crisis. According to the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, in 2023, the net vacancy rate for all housing…
Sales taxes are regressive, meaning that the poor pay a higher share of their income in these taxes than the rich. This is in contrast to progressive income taxes, which…
Say your profession is hunting after treasure chests. You find one treasure chest, but it almost always only has a key to the next one. The next one, however, is…
“Pull yourself up by the bootstraps” is a commonly used phrase, intended to indicate that if one is in a difficult situation, the solution is for them to just get…
What is the role of police? If you ask the police themselves, they will likely respond with some variation of the LAPD’s motto “to protect and serve.” But even beyond…
Study after study shows that people of color who are living paycheck to paycheck use predatory lending services. Government is part of the problem. It allows traditional banks to impose…
On May 19th, 2021, one of my mother’s closest friends, known to me as Auntie Kelli for as long as I have been alive, was brutally stabbed at the Union…
That’s what I was told recently by Guillermo Grenier, the co-director of the FIU Cuba Poll, a biennial poll that has researched Florida Cuban-Americans’ opinions on US policies toward Cuba…
New York City has spent $3.5 billion since 2014 sheltering the homeless but has done very little to improve the poorly maintained and unsafe living conditions endured by these populations….
Giving up food to feed a child. Choosing a MetroCard over a meal. These are some of the stories that researchers have collected on student food insecurity at the City…
Contrary to popular belief, family separation has not ended at our southern border. The inhumane process still exists, under a new name, hurting the most vulnerable migrant populations fleeing violence,…
We have come a long way to addressing the issues of sex work and defining concepts when discussing the matter. However, the problems with sex work still exists. To mitigate…
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