ITHACA, N.Y. — The national media spotlight is once more focused on the Cornell University professor and activist who made controversial remarks about Hamas’ attacks against Israel last October. History and Africana Studies professor Russell Rickford returned to teaching last month after spending the majority of last academic year on a voluntary leave of absence.…
Edwin J. Viera, Public News Service A new study found minimum wage increases have little or no impact on job loss. The Economic Policy Institute study comes as federal lawmakers consider raising the minimum wage. The New York Legislature considered a bill to raise the state’s $15 hourly minimum wage over the next three years…
Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system.Several Philadelphia public schools will “likely” close over the next few years, the city Board of Education president said Tuesday, stating that the s…
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.After ChatGPT exploded in popularity, New York City’s public school system quickly pushed back on the powerful chatbot, arguing it couldn’t help students build …
ITHACA, N.Y. — A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge ruled that two Ithaca Starbucks stores were improperly shut down last year and ordered the company to reopen them. Administrative […] The post NLRB judge orders two more Ithaca Starbucks to reopen appeared first on The Ithaca Voice.
Workers say the university’s lowest-paid employees carry some of the highest cost burdens for parking at SU. The post Up next for unions at Syracuse University: overhauling the employee parking cost structure appeared first on Central Current.
Dairy farms are struggling to survive as production costs exceed sales. The result, consolidation, with more cows on bigger farms, has an impact on communities and knowing where your food comes from.
Pennsylvania’s delays in counting mail-in votes have not been fixed − creating an opportunity for Trump and his allies to cast doubt on the results again in 2024.
Until now, researchers and the public knew very little about how well women were represented outside the federal government.
Edwin J. Viera, Public News Service New York groups are building support with federal lawmakers for several voting-rights bills. In passing the Freedom to Vote Act, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Native American Voting Rights Act, some hope to clarify how people can access their ballot. New York has passed…