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Browsing Centers, Institutes, Programs by Author "Weaver, Russell"
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Back to the Future of Local Elections: Reestablishing Resident Voting Rights to Strengthen Municipal Democracy
(2021-12)In the U.S., voting is treated as a discretionary political right rather than an inalienable natural right, meaning that who can and cannot vote is subject to variation over time and space. Although Americans are taught ... -
Buffalo Niagara's Union Members: Good Neighbors and Active Citizens
(2019-08-01)In honor of the 125th anniversary of Buffalo’s own, President Grover Cleveland, signing the law establishing the federal Labor Day holiday in the U.S., this report creates a current profile of labor union members in the ... -
Building “Next Generation” Democratic Workplaces to Reduce Inequality and Empower Workers: Evidence and Policy Implications from Buffalo-Niagara
(Cornell University, 2020-10)[Excerpt] Within the current political economic system, prevailing cultural norms and institutional infrastructure have forged a business climate that rewards self-interest, growth, and profit-maximization while essentially ... -
Chartering an Inclusive, Sustainable, Democratic City
(Cornell University, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, 2020-12)This article advances an opportunity for the City of Buffalo, NY – or any home rule municipality — to deepen and expand participatory governance and community self-determination, by replacing its current corporate charter ... -
Crisis of Care: How Commodification of Childcare Creates and Exacerbates Inequality in Erie County and New York State—and What to Do About It
(2022-03)This special triple issue of High Road Policy uses Erie County, New York as a study area in which to explore different dimensions of inequality that are found within, transcend, and are exacerbated by the area’s childcare ... -
Deepening Democracy in Buffalo by Honoring Prior Commitments (And a Legacy)
(2020-03)The waning years of the 2010s and the opening weeks of the 2020s have been rife with headlines, editorials, academic articles, lectures, and book titles lamenting a “crisis of democracy”. Among other things, the concerned ... -
Defining and Advancing High Road Policy Concepts, Strategies, and Tactics
(2020-06)[Excerpt] This Special Edition of High Road Policy (HRP) outlines a vision that opponents of the status quo can choose to stand for. It does so by proposing succinct answers to three basic questions: What is the High Road? ... -
Diminishing New York State's Public Mental Healthcare Sector: The Impact of Austerity and Privatization on Wages and Employment
(Cornell University, ILR School, Worker Institute, 2023)[Excerpt] This report explores the effects that privatization and austerity have had on mental healthcare capacity in New York State and the employment and wages of public sector mental health workers. Our research finds ... -
Economic Development on Common Ground: Two Bipartisan State Policies for Defunding Low Road Infrastructure
(2020-06)[Excerpt] On the backdrop of civil unrest and the nation’s politically discordant handling of COVID-19, these alarming figures bode poorly for the prospects of overcoming partisan gridlock to pass progressive, High Road ... -
Erasing Red Lines: Epilogue - Where Do We Go From Here?
(2020-01-28)While the Erasing Red Lines reports spoke of “distressed communities” and places experiencing “decline,” the core message—threaded through all three reports—is that patterns of “distress” and “decline” are products of a ... -
Erasing Red Lines: Part 2 - Systems Thinking for Social and Community Change
(2019-10-15)What, if anything, can be done to push back against persistently uneven geographies of opportunity in Buffalo and other post-industrial, shrinking cities? And why the focus on systems science and its technical jargon? A ... -
Erasing Red Lines: Part 3 - Building Community Wealth
(2019-12-19)Erasing Red Lines of discrimination and inequality from our map is a monumental task that will require transformational systems-change. As community-based organizations are demonstrating the possibilities of alternative ... -
Prioritizing Racial Equity and Social Justice in New York State
(Cornell University, ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, 2020-11)This issue of High Road Policy draws on the work of prominent racial equity scholars and activists to outline a framework for transforming New York State (NYS) government into an engine of racial equity and social justice. ... -
The Raise the Wage Act Could Lower Housing Cost Burden and Advance Racial Equity
(2021-03)This article frames the federal Raise the Wage Act – a policy proposal to simultaneously raise the federal minimum wage and eliminate the existing two-tiered minimum wage system – as a targeted mechanism for increasing the ... -
The True Cost of Child Care: Erie County NY (Final Report)
(Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, 2022-09)This Phase Two of a collaborative action research report illuminates both kinds of costs: current operational monetary costs per child at the enterprise or institutional level, and indicators of broader social costs of the ... -
Unvarnished: Precarity and Poor Working Conditions for Nail Salon Workers in New York State
(Cornell University, ILR School, The Worker Institute., 2022)This report maps out the contours of New York State’s nail salon industry and workforce and examines labor conditions in the industry and their impact on workers’ lives, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
