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Renewing Our Pledge: A Path to Ending Lead Poisoning of Buffalo\u27s Most Vulnerable Citizens
Get PDFThis report provides a comprehensive assessment of lead poisoning data for community stakeholders, decision makers, and funders. The assessment was advised by the WNY Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning and informed by key staff from the City of Buffalo Department of Permits and Inspections and Corporation Counsel, the Erie County Department of Health, and interviews conducted with officials, tenants, landlords, homeowners, nonprofit staff, community leaders, and other stakeholders in Erie County. The report is intended to develop a common understanding of the landscape for lead exposure and make strategic recommendations leading to a high impact, collaborative community strategy to eliminate lead poisoning in Buffalo and Erie County. For the first time, City housing data and County health data have been joined for a clear picture of the location and type of housing most likely to poison our children. The focus of this plan is primary prevention, addressing the sources of lead hazards before children can be exposed. This report recounts the history and consequences of lead poisoning, articulates major findings and produces a series of recommendations and calls to action for stakeholders across the region
Herkimer, Town of and Town of Herkimer Highway Department Unit, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Local 294 (2018)
Get PDFWestport, Town of and Town of Westport Highway Department Unit, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Local 294 (2018)
Get PDFDandelion Program 3 Year Report (Re-Assigned)
Get PDFThe Dandelion Program is an initiative to build Information Technology, life, and executive functioning skills to help establish IT careers for people on the autism spectrum. It is a three-year structured roadmap of transformation initiatives to improve the abilities of Dandelion team members in a number of key areas
Youth in Greece
Get PDFThis short report aims to provide a synthesis of Eurofound data and analysis on the situation of young people in Greece. It draws upon existing Eurofound research that examined the issue of young people ‘not in employment, education or training’ (NEET). This research is particularly pertinent for Greece, which has been disproportionately affected by youth unemployment as a result of the economic crisis. Societal effects include the greater financial dependence of young people on the family income, and the delaying of family formation. The report finds that young people with a tertiary level of education, and young women looking for their first job are candidates for targeted policy action. In addition, the older NEET population (25–29 years) merits special attention
China Employment Law Update - April 2018
Get PDFIn This Issue: China implements social security treaty with Spain Special economic zone in Shenzhen exempts Hong Kong and Macao residents from work permit requirements Supreme People\u27s Court upholds work injury claim for employee\u27s death while working at home Complaints arise over employers using cell phone location data against their employees Beijing court upholds termination for major change in objective circumstances Shanghai court invalidates employment contract signed after employee fabricated work experience Beijing court rules termination of pregnant employee during probation period unlawful Jiangsu court finds employer guilty of evading wage payments Shanghai court uses proportionality principle to reduce employer\u27s recovery of damages caused by employee\u27s wilful misconduc
China Employment Law Update - October 2018
Get PDFIn This Issue: Various new regulations issued on Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao residents working in mainland China Local governments ordered to slow down pursuit of unpaid and underpaid social insurance contributions New regulations issued on college and university work-study internships New draft of civil code would enhance protection against sexual harassment Employers can now use education department websites to verify job applicant and employee education history Social insurance blacklist proposed in new draft regulations Shanghai court rules camgirl not employee of live streaming platform Shanghai court requires employer to issue a “proof of termination” in recognition of employee\u27s lawful resignatio
The Impact of Monetary and Tax Policy on Income Inequality in Japan
Get PDFThis paper assesses the effects of the most recent monetary policy behavior of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) (in particular, zero interest rate policy and negative interest rate policy) and Japanese tax policy on income inequality in this country during the period of 2002Q1 to 2017Q3. The vector error correction model that develops in this research, shows that increase in money stock (m1) through quantitative easing (QE) and quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) policies of the BOJ significantly increases the income inequality. On the contrary, Japanese tax policy was effective in reducing the income inequality. Variance decomposition results show after ten periods almost 87.15% of the forecast error variance of the inequality is accounted for by its own innovations and 3.76% of the forecast error variance can be explained by exogenous shocks to monetary policy shock—the money stock (M1). The short-term interest rate also accounts for the increase in inequality by 0.47%. On the other hand, the total tax and real gross domestic product contributed in reducing the inequality measure, respectively, by 6.65% and 1.96% after 10 periods
Racial Disparities and Homelessness in Western New York
Get PDFThe Homeless Alliance of Western New York analyzed racial disparities among homelessness within Western New York and examined the homeless system’s equity serving different racial/ethnic groups in terms of receiving those services, prioritizing those services, and housing success rate. The ideal model for an unbiased homeless system would distribute assistance such that it is received in equal percentages across racial/ethnic groups as the percent of that racial group experiencing homelessness. One of the consequences of systemic racism is an overrepresentation of people of color among those who experience homelessness. Black people make up 11% of the general population of Western New York but they account for 25% of the people in poverty and 47% of the homeless population. When the number of people who experience homelessness are compared against the number of people who are in poverty, Black people living in poverty are 3 times more likely to experience homelessness compared to White people. These suggest that poverty rates alone do not explain the over-representation, but that systemic racism blunts the ability of people of color to recover from financial catastrophe to avoid homelessness relative to those who are White