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Raising the minimum wage would save lives

In 2016, the Health Department published a paper showing how a higher minimum wage could have reduced thousands of premature deaths in NYC — up to 8%. …

Efforts to reduce air pollution should focus on neighborhoods with the worst health impacts

This story was recently updated with new data. Every year in NYC between 2017 and 2019 (The most recent data available. See all recorded years of …

ZAPPA: A tool to understand air quality policies

Since we published this data story, some data in it have been updated. Get updated data on: Health impacts of air pollution New York City’s air …