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High Road Policy

An ILR Buffalo Co-Lab Initiative

February 3, 2021

In its application to the Hamburg Industrial Development Agency (HIDA), Bayview Road Associates, LLC, an agent of Amazoncom, proposes to develop a 181,500 square-foot,...

November 12, 2020

12 November 2020 The latest issue of High Road Policy draws on the work of prominent racial equity scholars and activists to outline a framework for transforming New York...

November 10, 2020

Even before COVID-19, the US was experiencing some of the highest levels of income inequality and largest racial and gender wealth gaps in recent memory By most accounts, the...

November 4, 2020

4 November 2020 (Repost from the Cornell Chronicle The original article is available here) Yesterday, the Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations (ILR)...

September 29, 2020

29 September 2020 On Friday, 2 October 2020, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) will release its monthly jobs report for September 2020 The consensus among economists is that...

September 28, 2020

28 September 2020 The Cornell University ILR School Buffalo Co-Lab, through its Good DEEDS and High Road Policy initiatives, is pleased to announce a new open data tool: our...

September 25, 2020

25 September 2020 When we last reported on new weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims in New York State back in mid-June, the news was mixed On one hand, new UI claims had...

September 9, 2020

13 April 2020 (last updated 9 September 2020 at 12:10pm) The deeper we get into the COVID-19 pandemic, the clearer it becomes that the virus is not some "great equalizer" that...

August 9, 2020

10 August 2020 Note: A condensed version of this post appeared in the 9 Aug 2020 issue of The Buffalo News (For users without a subscription to The Buffalo News, a PDF of that...

July 28, 2020

21 July 2020 Robert Hockett 1 Introduction Since Facebook’s Libra announcement of June 2019, monetary authorities worldwide have redoubled efforts to develop central bank...