The NY Legislature recently passed a bill that would add prevailing wage requirements onto Brownfield Cleanup Program projects. Projects over $5 million would be required to pay remedial workers prevailing wage, making BCP projects less financially viable. Coupling...

New York’s outdated Scaffold Law unfairly holds property owners, employers, and contractors absolutely liable for injuries when a worker falls on a construction site. New York has the highest liability standard in the nation; as a result, New York construction projects are...

As the Benefits Bridge Coalition works to implement policy solutions to the benefits cliff, two things are clear: (1) state benefits need to be reformed to encourage economic mobility; and (2) the collaboration of social service administrators is needed to identify feasible...