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High Road Policy

An ILR Buffalo Co-Lab Initiative

June 18, 2024

A companion to High Road Policy Vol 4(1), Activating the Tenant Vote, a joint release of the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab and Tenants PAC, examines the untapped potential of the tenant...

June 12, 2024

Following a year (2023) in which no new issues of High Road Policy (HRP) were released in order to free up resources to build out dedicated, standalone websites and reports on (1)...

June 1, 2024

Two of the Cornell ILR School's statewide mapping and data visualization portals -- the Cornell ILR Wage Atlas and the New York State (NYS) Digital Equity Portals -- received...

May 24, 2024

To accompany the sweeping updates that the ILR Buffalo Co-Lab made in May 2024 to the New York State Digital Equity Portal, we are pleased to release a new fact sheet that...

April 25, 2024

The Cornell University ILR School's Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) released a new explainer today that defines a "minimum wage", describes what a minimum wage is...

February 5, 2024

The Cornell University ILR School's Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) released a new explainer today that defines a "prevailing wage" and highlights the ways in which...

January 16, 2024

The Cornell University ILR School's Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) released a new explainer today that defines what a living wage is and describes the most common...

February 21, 2023

In response to numerous requests, the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab team is pleased to launch an updated, 2023 version of our widely used Buffalo Common Council District Information...

January 11, 2023

By James Dean, Cornell Chronicle A digital wage atlas launched by Cornell researchers shows that fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn at or above a living wage, including less...

January 4, 2023

From the May 14th Tops massacre, wherein a white supremacist purposefully targeted Buffalo’s Black population en route to murdering ten community members and wounding three...