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Reports:
We recently publushed two reports done in partnership with the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School and the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies on the state of the Western Queens workforce. Our report with the New School represents the largest neighborhood-focused study of the gig economy to date, while our study with CUNY convened workers across industries. Our results show a crisis for gig workers and an urgent need to provide resources and protections for this growing workforce.
Conducted between December 2020 and February 2021 and comprising 726 individual responses of workers in Astoria and surrounding neighborhoods, such as Long Island City, the Astoria Project survey offers a unique portrait of workers in one neighborhood’s Covid experience that reveals the depth and breadth of the challenges the city will face at it emerges from the pandemic. Survey results were weighted by industry of employment to approximate the industry distribution of workers residing in Astoria.