Last week’s horrific Hoboken train terminal crash drove home a salient fact every Garden State resident knows: NJ infrastructure needs investment dollars. Long before last week, corporate leaders in NJ voiced their concern about infrastructure in a 2015 Chamber of…
Read MoreLack of spending on infrastructure projects by state and local governments threatens us all. According to Vice, “spending on infrastructure is at its lowest since 1947.” In its latest assessment of the country’s infrastructure, the American Society for Civil Engineers…
Read MoreWe have a winner! David from Brooklyn takes first prize for his photo: Glass Half Full or Half Empty. He explained that the photo represents that perceived disadvantages can also be opportunities. For example, a disability doesn’t have to hold someone back.…
Read MorePoverty-stricken, inner city kids have few creative outlets. School art programs are one of the places where they can be exposed to art and often the experience can be life-altering. But increasingly funding for arts programs is the first thing…
Read MoreThis Is What Equality Looks Like To Me – Photo Contest CUNY ISLG’s Equality Indicators team developed a framework for measuring equality in Economy, Education, Health, Housing, Justice, and Services. Equality, as we define it, is everyone having the same…
Read MoreI have called NYC home for over 60 years. Living and working as a government official and City University of New York (CUNY) Sociology Professor in it, I never fail to find something new, remarkable, or strange about it every…
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