Fewer than 40% of New Yorkers earn a living wage

The Cornell ILR Wage Atlas shows who in New York state earns living wages and where, helping policymakers and other stakeholders to understand patterns of inequality.

ILR student spurs minimum wage hike back home

Casey Platkin ’26 advocated for a minimum wage increase in California’s San Mateo County, where thousands of low-wage workers will see bigger paychecks.

ILR’s Scheinman Institute helping to diversify arbitration field

Barriers that keep people of color and women from entering the arbitration profession are being challenged by Scheinman institute research, teaching and outreach.

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Three ILR faculty members named full professors

Two professors in ILR’s Department of Human Resource Studies and one in the school’s Department of Organizational Behavior have been promoted.

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ILR School names Edmund Ezra Day Professor

Revealing processes through which workplace inequality emerges, and how workers and their advocates respond, is at the heart of Professor Shannon Gleeson’s scholarship.

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“Good Jobs for All?” hosted by ILR’s Ithaca Co-Lab

The “Good Jobs for All?” summit focused on barriers faced by workers in Ithaca, where ILR faculty, students and community members have been investigating joblessness, wage inequality and related issues.

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Two ILR School doctoral candidates receiving awards for research activities

The ILR School has announced the 2022 winners of its Benjamin Miller Scholarship Fund grants.

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Pollack establishes Task Force on Undergraduate Admissions

President Martha E. Pollack has established a task force to interrogate all aspects of the undergraduate admissions process and to recommend a universitywide admissions policy and best practices that will be guided by Cornell’s founding mission and can be adapted by the admissions offices of each school and college.

Global Public Voices fellows to speak out on democratic threats

This year’s 27 Global Public Voices fellows from the Einaudi Center will engage with national and international news media to make their voices heard on conditions and current events that threaten democratic institutions worldwide.

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