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  • Milk Cows Not Workers!

    New York’s dairy production and processing industry generates $14 billion a year and is the star sector of the state’s agricultural economy. Unfortunately, the immigrant workers who provide milking labor…

  • Construction Jobs Lack Basic Provisions in $175 Billion Industry

    As cities in the south continue to boom, workers earn poverty level wages and face dangerous working conditions. Build a Better South report highlights issues plaguing the construction industry in…

  • Utility Rights and Energy Security

    Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson is a grassroots organization empowering the low-income population of Poughkeepsie, NY to keep their lights on. Approximately, 295,797 New York residential customers had their utility service disconnected…

  • Integrating the Undocumented Community

    A Qualitative Exploration of the Process for Obtaining DC’s Limited Purpose Driver’s License In January of 2015, Center for Social Justice (CSJ) and community partners, Central American Resource Center and…

  • “Stay with your words”: Indigenous youth, local policy, and the work of language fortification

    Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Nathan D. Martin of Arizona State University, and Carnell T. Chosa, of the Leadership Institute of the Santa Fe Indian School recently published  “Stay With Your Words”:…

  • Behind the Kitchen Door: Extreme Inequality and Opportunity in Houston’s Vibrant Restaurant Economy

    Restaurant Opportunities Center of Houston’s latest report is the most comprehensive examination to date of the Houston-area restaurant industry. Behind the Kitchen Door offers a vivid picture of the state…

  • Stolen Chances: Low-Wage Work and Wage Theft in Iowa

    Despite three years of heightened attention — from our work, from media reports, and from some policymakers — wage theft remains persistent in Iowa,” said Colin Gordon, author of a…

  • Punishing the Poorest

    Punishing the Poorest: How the Criminalization of Homelessness Perpetuates Poverty in San Francisco by the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco documents the effects of criminalization on the homeless residents.…

  • What rights do people have to a warm home?

    The Murphy Institute recently posted this interview of members of recent Sociological Initiative Foundation grantee, Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson.  It highlights their People’s Power campaign for affordable, sustainable, and just utilities…

  • A Report on Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color

    In collaboration with the National Council on Crime & Delinquency (NCCD), BreakOUT!, recently released a report, “We Deserve Better: A Report on Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer…