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High Road Policy

An ILR Buffalo Co-Lab Initiative

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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...

December 10, 2021

Courtesy of the Cornell Chronicle   The ILR School and Community Tech NY are launching the New York State Digital Equity Portal Dec 7 in partnership with the New York...

August 4, 2021

Note: A condensed version of this article appeared in The Hill on 21 July 2021 Since the moment the CARES Act first expanded unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in late March...

July 8, 2021

Part 1 of of this post introduced the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab's First Annual High Road Policy Summit by defining what a "High Road" society is and how it contrasts with 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 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...

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...

July 4, 2020

4 July 2020 Crises require people and organizations to break from normal routines -- to redirect energy and capacity toward response and recovery Almost immediately after...

June 18, 2020

18 June 2020 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of weekly unemployment insurance (UI) claims has been one of the most closely monitored and widely cited data...