Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab

Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab Cornell ILR’s extension history begins with Buffalo.

Cornell University ILR Buffalo Co-Lab is a collaborative research, teaching, and public knowledge center for progressive economic development in Greater Buffalo. Co-Lab initiatives include student-engaged learning through High Road Fellowships and Careers in Public Service; the interactive digital library, researchers network, and workshops of Buffalo Commons; the technical and analytical economic

geography resource of Data for Equitable Economic Development and Sustainability (Good DEEDS for Greater Buffalo); and the visiting activist scholar exchange between Buffalo and the campus in Ithaca. Since 1946, ILR has played a vital role in the region, working in partnership with businesses, unions, government, education and community organizations to build an economy that works for all. The bold pragmatic new initiatives of Buffalo Co-Lab follow a long line of innovations over decades of economic change. Always aligned with high road principles, ILR consistently promotes radical collaborations in pursuit of the common good.

03/14/2024
Join the roll-out of "The Status of Child Care in New York State" on March 8, 2024 from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Crane Lib...
03/05/2024

Join the roll-out of "The Status of Child Care in New York State" on March 8, 2024 from 10 a.m. to Noon at the Crane Library, 633 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222, second floor. The program will include a presentation on the state of child care in New York State by Dr. Rusty Weaver and Dr. Steve Peraza. Speakers include child care workers, parents, and partners like the Western New York Child Care Action Team, WNY Women's Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and The John R. Oishei Foundation. Community members will comment on how the child care issue is compounding its employer member shortages. Senator Jabari Brisport, Chair of Committee on Children and Families, Assemblymember Monica Wallace, and additional representatives of the Western New York Delegation will share their feedback and insights as well.

This event is free, open to the public.

06/26/2023

Join us tomorrow at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site from 6-7pm for Speaker Nite with Dr. Mildred Warner on Local Leadership in Addressing Challenges of Climate Change, Aging and Equity, Learn more and register:

Cathy Creighton, director of ILR's Buffalo Co-Lab, says that  Starbucks airing their labor law violations publicly “will...
03/30/2023

Cathy Creighton, director of ILR's Buffalo Co-Lab, says that Starbucks airing their labor law violations publicly “will tarnish their brand, and when it tarnishes their brand, it will hurt their bottom dollar, and then they’ll stop doing it. They’re not going to stop doing it unless someone stops them.”

Longtime CEO Howard Shultz testified before a Senate committee as the company’s labor violations stack up.

03/22/2023

The Cornell ILR Eviction Filings Dashboard for New York is a new tool from Russell Weaver, director of research at the Buffalo Co-Lab. The dashboard is designed to help citizens, policymakers and nonprofits more easily visualize where eviction filings have occurred since 2018, their frequency and how filing patterns have changed over time.

“In a nutshell, the biggest cost facing working families across NYS is housing, and housing costs have been rising rapidly in recent years,” said Weaver. “The lack of living wage earnings across the state that our Wage Atlas reveals, combined with rapidly rising housing costs -- all happening at the same time the statewide COVID eviction moratorium expired -- is leading to increased interest in eviction across the state and the impacts it will have on NYS communities and the state economy.”

The eviction dashboard project is part of the public impact mission and “data democratization” initiative at the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Ty787b

Our latest collaborative policy brief with Partnership for the Public Good looks at the impact of raising the minimum wa...
02/07/2023

Our latest collaborative policy brief with Partnership for the Public Good looks at the impact of raising the minimum wage in WNY, especially for workers who are women, people of color, and immigrants. Learn more at http://bit.ly/3l2qfcf + at // !

Or you can explore the interactive Cornell ILR Wage Atlas: https://blogs.cornell.edu/livingwage/

Strikers Winning Concessions: “If there’s nobody in line to take your job because there are just not enough people, that...
01/17/2023

Strikers Winning Concessions: “If there’s nobody in line to take your job because there are just not enough people, that gives you incredible strength in striking,” says Cathy Creighton

Cornell University counted almost 400 strikes last year, following decades of declining union membership. Here's why labor action is becoming more common.

01/10/2023

To combat climate change, we need to invest heavily in developing and retaining a well-trained, highly qualified workforce to install renewable energy sources, retrofit buildings, expand public transportation, and take on other critical tasks. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides a once-in-a-g...

01/09/2023

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