Author: pzinn@gmafoundations.com
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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…
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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…
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“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”:…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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From Undocumented to DACAMENTED
From Undocumented to DACAMENTED by Caitlin Patler and Jorge A. Cabrera in collaboration with Dream Team Los Angeles assesses DACA’s impacts on the educational and socioeconomic trajectories and health and…
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Being Policed: Young People’s Stories of Encounters With the NYPD
Researchers for Fair Policing is an intergenerational team of researchers from Make the Road New York & the Public Science Project. It collected the stories of young people’s experiences with…