Jennifer Gordon
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"Jennifer Gordon" founded the Workplace Project in 1992, a non-profit organization/non-profit worker center in Hempstead (village), New York/Hempstead, New York, which organizes immigrant workers, mostly from Central and South America. The Workplace Project lobbied for and won a strong wage enforcement law in New York state. Gordon was the executive director of the Workplace Project from 1993 to 1998. Gordon was a MacArthur Fellow from 1999-2004. She is the author of Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights, as well as several articles on immigrants, politics, and labor unions. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1987 and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School in 1992. She is currently an associate professor at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches courses on immigration and labor law.

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It's a recipe for a permanent underclass.

The southwest corner is just bloodied. Roads are like skating rinks. It's just catastrophic.

I think I was walking more than I was running. If it wasn't for Gillian I probably wouldn't have finished.

They hope to have everybody back on by the end of this week, but realistically, some of the rural areas may be into next week.

These centers have gotten smarter over the years. They are turning victories that would have just been a back-pay award into something more.

The roads are treacherous not only for the people who are trying to get back and forth from their homes but also for the emergency personnel, ... We're being very cautious on what we send them out on, whether it's something that can wait or whether it's something that really has to be dealt with right away.