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Solving the Home Care Quandary
The New York Times
“It’s a crisis,” said Madeline Sterling, a primary care doctor at Weill Cornell Medicine and director of the Initiative on Home Care Work, housed in ILR’s Center for Applied Research on Work, about home care for the elderly. She also discusses recent clinical trials aimed at improving care.
NYC takes booby prize as most ‘stressed-out’ city in the world — surprising absolutely no one
NY Post
The article expands on a report saying that New York City residents have a very high cost of living by citing the ILR School’s 2024-25 New York at Work Report, which used data from the 2024 Empire State Poll conducted by ILR’s Center for Applied Research on Work.
In this audio interview, Ariel Avgar, ILR professor of labor relations, law, and history, and director of the Center for Applied Research on Work, speaks about the 2024-2025 New York at Work report from ILR Outreach, which includes the results of the latest Empire State Poll.
Poll finds that unpaid caregivers face financial challenges
WBNG
Zoë West, a senior researcher of worker rights and equity at ILR’s Worker Institute, comments on issues raised by the latest Empire State poll about balancing unpaid caretaking and paid work. West contributed to the poll project, which was highlighted in ILR’s 2024-25 New York at Work report.
New poll shows New Yorkers cite cost of living as their biggest financial threat
WBNG
Russell Weaver, director of research at ILR’s Buffalo Co-Lab, comments on the latest Empire State poll. Weaver contributed to the poll project, which was highlighted in ILR’s 2024-25 New York at Work report.
Cost of living a major concern for New York workforce
Cornell Chronicle
Now in its fifth year, the 2024-25 New York at Work report draws on ILR expertise, research-based data and policy analysis on a broad range of key issues affecting the state’s workers, unions, communities and employers.
New Research Shows Home Care Cooperative Can Improve Patient Care
Home care cooperatives – agencies co-owned and managed by home care workers – have key factors that appear to significantly improve the quality of care for patients, according to a new study co-authored by Senior Associate Dean for Outreach and Sponsored Research Ariel Avgar, Ph.D. ’08.
