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Empowering Workers is McNutt’s Focus

The director of ILR’s Criminal Justice Employment Initiative teaches job applicants and hiring managers how to get beyond the criminal records that often keep them apart.
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Empowering Workers is McNutt’s Focus

Paid home care workers go well beyond standard duties

Cornell Chronicle
Paid home care workers are helping patients manage chronic conditions and promoting general and mental health – going well beyond the personal care contributions for which they have been historically associated, according to new Cornell research.
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Paid home care workers go well beyond standard duties

Home Health Care Workforce Researched

Senior Associate Dean Ariel Avgar collaborates with Weill Cornell and Cornell Tech colleagues to study working conditions of home health aides, home attendants and nursing assistants.
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Home Health Care Workforce Researched

Restorative Record Project Launched

New initiative and accompanying web-based tool helps employers see beyond criminal records of applicants and into the skills applicants would bring to jobs.
Jodi Anderson Jr.
Restorative Record Project Launched

Collaboration With Weill

ILR Associate Dean of Outreach Ariel Avgar is working with faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine to research the working conditions of low-wage frontline health care professionals in New York to assess the impact on patient care.

Associate Professor Ariel Avgar, Dr. Madeline Sterling, A&S ’08 and Douglas Wigdor meeting at ILR’s NYC headquarters.
Collaboration With Weill