An analysis of federal data reveals that New York hospitals rank among the lowest nationwide for safety and quality of care.

Established that hospital patients are put at risk by the diversion of public healthcare dollars to high executive compensation and unnecessary advertising.

This report documented the risks to hospital patients from inadequate bedside care staffing, including higher rates of hospital-acquired infections, cardiac arrest, and mortality. Report demonstrated that improved staffing levels would save lives and refuted healthcare industry claims that typical staffing levels were sufficient to avoid adverse patient outcomes.

Nursing staff who hand-lift hospital and nursing home patients suffer more back injuries on the job than construction workers. This report documented these hazards and made the case for cost-effective lifting technology. Findings were also published in the Journal of the Association for Healthcare Risk Managers of New York and helped lead to passage of New York's Safe Patient Handling Act.

This policy brief showed that the primary federal program to lift worker incomes - the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) - almost exclusively benefits tax filers with children. The brief’s recommendation that policymakers expand the EITC for childless low-income workers is being implemented in New York City. 

This report identifies chronic issues in the non-profit Human Services sector, and proposes solutions to stabilize and strengthen the sector.

This report reviewed occupational fatalities in New York State and found that many deaths could have been prevented had OSHA more effectively enforced worker safety regulations.

Workers of color accounted for 74 percent of fatalities from accidents in the New York construction industry, despite representing only 34 percent of the workforce; 88 percent of fatal falls in Queens and 87 percent in Brooklyn involved Latinos and/or immigrants. Nearly all fatalities occurred at sites lacking proper training and equipment where workers were reluctant to report safety violations for fear of retaliation by employers.

The report discusses New Mexico's over-dependence on oil and gas revenues and the need to broaden its economic base in the face of the industry's long-term financial decline.

Report, co-authored by Energy and Environmental Policy Director Suzanne Mattei, found that Texas oil drillers released natural gas worth nearly $750 million into the air instead of cutting excess production and the state's oil and gas regulatory commission failed to take action to reduce wasteful and polluting gas flaring.

Report refutes National Grid’s justification for $1 billion pipeline project by demonstrating that climate change, greater energy efficiency, population stagnation and the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic will dampen energy demand in the service area.

This report demonstrates that a proposed 23-mile-long fracked gas pipeline is not needed by New York City. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer commended it, stating, "The proposed Williams pipeline represents a monumental step backwards. This report dismantles [energy company] Williams' arguments and makes a clear and convincing case that better alternatives exist."

Devised a process to provide transparent and enforceable benefits that offset the impact of major real estate development projects on communities in which they are located.