The Atlantic (Letter to the Editor) – Among Tyler Cowen’s “Six Rules for Dining Out” (May) was “Exploit Restaurant Workers” (No. 5). Cowen said many family-run Asian restaurants pay their employees low salaries, and therefore “offer good food buys.”…
New York Times – In a slow, somber procession, several thousand demonstrators conducted a silent march on Sunday down Fifth Avenue to protest the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policies, which the organizers say single out minority groups…
New York Law Journal – The New York City Bar held a reception on June 13 at its 44th Street headquarters to honor its annual Legal Service Awards winners. On hand for the event are… Ivy Suriyopas, Anti-Trafficking Initiative, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund…
Release — Assemblyman David Weprin, Senator Toby Ann Stavisky, and several South Asian community leaders held a press conference outside the Queens Board of Elections advocating for passage of their bill A9956/S7402. This bill directs the Queens county board of elections to provide written language
NY1 News – A study released by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington D.C. highlights a anomaly in the Asian-American community that has been largely overlooked. 50 percent of unemployed Asian-Americans are unemployed long term, the largest share of any ethnic group…
Washington Post – Opposition to high-stakes standardized testing is growing around the country, with more parents choosing to opt their children out of taking exams, more school boards expressing disapproval…
Voice of America – Asian-Americans suffer the highest rates of long-term unemployment of any group in the United States, according to a recent study issued by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
On May 18, 2012, during the National Coalition on School Diversity’s (NCSD) second national conference, school diversity experts, along with Congressional and federal officials, gathered to discuss the ongoing impact of landmark education decisions.
In 1945, Latino parents in Orange County, Califor
New York Times – Here’s a variant on the depressingly common phenomenon of restaurants underpaying their low-wage workers: a former employee of the Lower East Side gastropub Spitzer’s Corner has charged in a suit that he was hired into a nonexistent “apprenticeship” and required to work upwards of 9
Gothamist – An aspiring cook has filed a lawsuit against the chef and owners of Spitzer’s Corner, the popular Lower East Side scenester hangout that’s previously been in trouble for serving booze to minors. According to the lawsuit (in full below) executive chef Sung Park, general manager David Moon
New York Magazine — DNAinfo says Edward Kim, who worked in the Spitzer’s Corner kitchen for roughly ten months, is suing the Lower East Side spot for allegedly paying him a “poverty wage.” Kim says he stuck around because he was promised a culinary education, in addition to the low pay. Instead, Kim
DNAinfo – A former employee at the Lower East Side gastropub Spitzer’s Corner is suing the restaurant for allegedly paying him as little as $2.91 an hour while he worked as an apprentice under former executive chef Sung Park.
Edward Kim, who worked at the Rivington Street eatery from March 2010 to
New York Times – Here’s a variant on the depressingly common phenomenon of restaurants underpaying their low-wage workers: a former employee of the Lower East Side gastropub Spitzer’s Corner has charged in a suit that he was hired into a…
Downtown Express – Though a billing snafu in Chinatown has been resolved, it has reawakened a long-standing debate over the neighborhood’s newly formed Business Improvement District and caused angst among some property owners about being overcharged in the future.
The B.I.D.’s interim board of dire
New York Daily News — The Tenth Annual CUNY/Daily News annual Citizenship NOW! Call-in is a terrific success.
We have already answered more than 100,000 call since the program began. The call-in ends Friday, so you have just three days left to call us with your questions about citizenship and immig
Washington Post – A national resolution protesting high-stakes standardized testing was released Tuesday by a coalition of national education, civil rights and parents groups, as well as educators who are trying to build a broad-based movement against the Obama administration’s test-centric school r
Queens Tribune — “No worry I have kindergartners make pamphlet 4 English ppls to read Chinese signs. It be all ok. Me love you all long time! #NY06”.
In the context of a lifetime, or even a congressional race, they barely equated to the flicker of an eyelash: four tweets in total, fired across cybe
NY1 News — Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed off on newly drawn lines for state legislative districts as part of a deal that would reform the redistricting process in 2022, but the plan is still in a state of legal limbo. NY1’s Bobby Cuza filed the following report.
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AOL/Huffington Post – If you’ve ever received a speedy $10 manicure, there’s a good chance that the woman who buffed your nails was paid less than minimum wage, denied overtime, and suffered emotional abuse. At least that’s what salon workers and attorneys claim in a spate of lawsuits.
The latest,
Village Voice — Some Chinatown property owners didn’t really want to be part of a Business Improvement District in the first place. Now a group of them are claiming that the city illegally charged them fees corresponding to months before the BID even officially existed.
The city told the Voice yest
