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Make the Road New York catalyzes change for low-income New Yorkers by working in five Impact Areas:

1. Expanding Civil Rights and Civic Engagement
2. Promoting Health for all New Yorkers
3. Improving Housing and Fostering Environmental Justice
4. Winning Justice in the Workplace
5. Promoting Access, Excellence and Opportunity in Education

Our multifaceted approach to promoting justice in each of these impact areas transforms individual lives and brings about broad-based policy change at the city, state and national levels.

Expanding Civil Rights | Promoting Health | Improving Housing | Winning Workplace Justice | Improving Public Education

Youth Leaders Save Student Metrocards
Thousands of students across New York City are celebrating their hard-won victory to preserve free school transportation for the city's K-12 students.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced June 18 that it would continue to provide free student Metrocards, after state legislators agreed to help fill the authority's budget shortfall.

Since December, when the MTA first proposed the cutting the program, youth leaders of Make the Road New York and the citywide Urban Youth Collaborative have sprung into action to get their message heard, that students have a right to free education, and free education means free transportation to school.

Click to find out more, read press coverage, and watch video clips of our youth in action.

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