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BUMP is raising awareness of the need to increase human services worker pay across New York State. Read the latest research, press coverage, and campaign updates.

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CUNY Institute for Local & State Governance's Reports

CUNY ISLG conducted a statewide analysis of New York’s nonprofit human services workforce, examining its growth, wages, and economic impact.

CUNY Report

Regional Human Services Labor Market Analysis in New York State: Phase 3

CUNY Report

Critical Services, High Growth, Low Wages

CUNY Report

Regional Human Services Labor Market Analysis in New York State: Phase 2

CUNY Report

Regional Human Services Labor Market Analysis in New York State: Phase 1

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Press Releases

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BUMP Advocacy Day: Human Service Workers and Allies Rally to Demand Fair Pay

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Raising Wages of Human Service Workers Would Generate Billions in New Economic Activity and Pull Nearly 100,000 New Yorkers Out of Poverty

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CUNY ISLG Study of NY’s Human Services Workforce Finds Sector Growing Rapidly, but Wages Fall Short of the Cost of Living

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Campaign Coverage

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City Limits — Op-Ed | As AI Looms, Ensuring NY’s Human Service Workers Earn a Living Wage

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The New York Times — How a Social Services Worker Lives on $40,000 a Year in Brooklyn

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QNS — New York Foundling Celebrates Opening of Queens Day Habilitation Program Site in Jamaica

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Buffalo Toronto Public Media — Disabilities Beat: NYS Budget Stalemate Continues, A Push for Higher Human Services Wages

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Spectrum News — Study Finds Many New York Human Service Workers Earn Poverty-level Wages

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AMNY — Op-Ed | Caregivers Holding the System Together Have No Safety Net of Their Own

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Buffalo News — Another Voice: Human Service Workers Are Ridiculously Underpaid in New York

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Lohud — We Can End The Poverty Crisis Holding Back NY Care Providers | Opinion

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AMNY — Op-Ed | Listen to Voters: Raise the Wage Floor

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PIX11 — Co-chair of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s team on new appointments

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WWNY — Campaign for NY Human Service Workers wage bump

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WCAX — Campaign for NY Human Service Workers wage bump

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WBNG — Campaign for NY Human Service Workers wage bump

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Amsterdam News — URBAN AGENDA: New York’s Human Services Workers Deserve Wages That Reflect Their Value

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PoliticsNY — The Forgotten Front-line Workers

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City and State New York — New campaign engages CUNY to quantify need in human services

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City and State New York — Keep NYC after-school programs affordable, while still paying workers fair wages

Data and research sourced from CUNY Institute for Local & State Governance’s Regional Human Services Labor Market Analysis in New York State, unless otherwise noted.