Last week, Bronx Councilman Oliver Koppell and several other Council members blasted the EDC at a press conference in front of City Hall, saying the group they commissioned to produce the study, the Boston-based Charles River Associates, has demonstrated a history of opposing living wage. more>

Caribbean immigrant teenagers are on the radar screen of criminal youth gangs who threaten or otherwise force young women into becoming prostitutes. That alarm was raised by Charles Hynes, Brooklyn's District Attorney who has created the Brooklyn Sex Trafficking Unit to investigate cases and bring perpetrators to court. more>

Jewish students will once again be included among groups protected from ethnic- or race-based harassment on campus under the Civil Rights Act, and will be afforded the same federal protection as blacks, Hispanics and other minority groups when it comes to harassment in schools that receive government funding. more>

Thirty-three domestic workers organizations in 17 cities around the country joined hands to rally and pass the proposed Care Act, a bill of rights for caregivers, work standards for domestic workers and a path to legalize undocumented workers. more>

Because young undocumented immigrants hoping to go to college stand to gain so much from the bill, the DREAM Act has become – during the 10 years that Congress has considered the legislation – the rallying point of thousands of Latino youth activists nationwide. more>