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The Huffington post was very interesting. I like how Short utilizes graphs in order to display the severity of the living wage policy issue. The $32.30 of the living wage is towering over the $8.00 NY minimum wage. DeBlasio’s plan with no benefits is $13.13 but is in no way close to the $32.30 amount. In my opinion, DeBlasio’s […]

Kevin Short’s article in the Huffington post discusses De Blasio’s plan to raise 18,000 employees wages in what he calls the new living wage policy. Mr. Short however critiques the plan because it still leaves many types of families below living wage. For instance a single parents with 1 child has a living age of […]

After reading the article about the housing in New York City and the burden some residents face, it makes me wonder why people decide to live here. I know of many individuals who work in Midtown Manhattan yet live far off in New Jersey. More so because they can afford it and necessarily do not […]

The minimum wage, to me at least, makes little to no sense today. This SHOULD be the least amount of money that someone can live on to survive and live. Maybe this was the case when it was created by Roosevelt during the Depression, but definitely not today. The price of goods has risen dramatically […]

The fight to raise the minimum wage has been a ongoing effort not just in New York but also throughout the United States. Obama had addressed this issue in his attempt to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and de Blasio had signed an executive order to increase the living wage in […]

Living in New York throughout my whole life, my family and I have experienced firsthand the fluctuations of rent prices throughout the suburbs, and the drastic changes that have occurred post-recession. As a family of immigrants, coming to New York was a great opportunity for my parents to be able to live reasonably in a […]

While new developments are springing up in all boroughs, thus showing recovery from the recession and Superstorm Sandy, neighborhood rezonings and a new focus on strengthening properties from future storms has been put into plan. I had always lived in a house on Staten Island, with my parents paying mortgage. Recently, I had moved out […]

In Queens, my family owns a house. We’ve been living in the same house for over a decade and never really considered moving out. However, I have noticed that more and more of our neighbors are putting up their houses for sale and, when asked, said they were moving into apartments because they could not […]

Rent prices are becoming extremely unaffordable to people with lower incomes. It makes sense that prices are increasing because most corporations and organizations are housed in the cities. However, it pushes lower income families out of the cities and forces them to move into the suburbs or tight, but cheaper areas like Queens. The graph […]

I was truly startled after reading the significant effects that housing, zoning, and other factors have on increasing income inequality, especially within metropolitan areas. After understanding these underlying drivers of income inequality, I am strongly against the regulatory initiatives that support restrictive zoning. I was sickened by the recent article regarding the “two cities in […]

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