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CUF in the News

	Mile-long under-line market backed for Harlem, Crain's New York Business, July 30, 2010
	'High Line for Harlem' Plan Gains Support, DNAinfo, July 29, 2010
	Report calls for "A High Line for Harlem", The Real Deal, July 29, 2010
	Think Tank Wants Harlem High Line That Isn't Actually a High Line, Curbed NY, July 29, 2010
	Brian Lehrer Show Discusses An Aqueduct Alternative, WNYC, July 20, 2010
	Nonprofit groups make just a handful of dollars off street fairs throughout city, New York Daily News, July 19, 2010
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New York by the Numbers

Economic snapshots of the 5 boroughs

This month's data... This edition of New York by the Numbers reveals that nearly a third of all adult workers in New York City are employed in low-wage jobs. While the percentage of low-wage workers is high across the city, the Bronx is in a league of its own, with 42 percent of the boroughs workers in low-wage jobs.

Transcript of A World of Opportunity: Should New York and Other Cities Look to Immigrant Entrepreneurs as a New Engine for Economic Growth?

The full transcript from the conference the Center co-sponsored with the Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch College, which examined the impact immigrant entrepreneurs are having, the specific obstacles they face in starting and growing businesses and what policies local and national officials ought to undertake to support this under-appreciated part of the economy.

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Panelists included Ann Li, Vice President, International & Financial Services, NYC Economic Development Corporation; Manuel Miranda, President, Delicias Andinas; Joyce Moy, Executive Director, Asian American/Asian Research Institute, CUNY; Fatimah Muhammad, Manager, Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians; Paul Quintero, Chief Operating Officer, ACCION New York and New Jersey; Maria De Lourdes Sobrino, founder of Los Angeles-based Lulu's Desserts and author of Thriving Latina Entrepreneurs in America; Audrey Singer, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution; Yanki Tshering, Director, Business Center for New Americans; Victor Ashok Vora, a Brooklyn-based entrepreneur and Vivek Wadhwa, Fellow, Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School; Columnist, Business Week.