Photo: Judy Kottick with her daughter, Ella Bandes In a congested city filled with buses and cars, pedestrians and bikers in New York are left vulnerable. When crashes happen, lives are irrevocably altered or ended. Families are left to pick…
Read MoreThe Problem Youth dating abuse and domestic violence is widespread; New York has the highest reported rate of sexual dating abuse and the third highest rate of physical dating abuse in the country according to the CDC’s 2015 Youth…
Read MoreWomen are half of the U.S. and world’s population. But you wouldn’t know it looking at their representation in government. The Equality Indicators’ new report, “Who Runs Our Cities? The Political Gender Gap in the Top 100 U.S. Cities” documents…
Read MoreThe Problem In New York State 105,000 children have a parent in prison or jail. Many of these children live in Brooklyn. A 2013 analysis of Department of Corrections’ data by Gothamist found three Brooklyn neighborhoods disproportionately accounting for the…
Read MoreThe Equality Indicators spoke with Clorinda Andrade, University Coordinator, of CUNY’s Fatherhood Academy, about inequality. The Academy serves any father between the ages of 18-25 years of age in NYC who wants to expand their education and/or seek better…
Read MoreChange-Makers Series: FamilyWorks Program at the Osborne Association The Problem At any given time, more than 5 million children in the United States have a parent in jail or prison. In New York, that number is 148,000 a year. “Orphans…
Read More2015 marked the end of muscle cars. Muscle cars (non-European, high-performance vehicles) were a five-decade trend in America. They had big, loud, and dirty V-8 engines, the first of which roared in the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket. 1950 to 1970 was…
Read MoreHarsh school discipline is often employed by school staff in an attempt to limit disruptions to students’ ability to learn. For instance, bullying can contribute to a hostile learning climate generally and for particular groups of students, and schools may…
Read MoreLast week the White House held its first United State of Women Summit in Washington D.C. to strategize about gender equality. Every woman knows the problem, in most cases intimately. My Uber driver, Houma, reminded me of this on the…
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