More than 108,000 New Yorkers cannot vote because of a conviction in their past. Almost half of these disenfranchised citizens have completed their prison sentence and are living and working in the community.

The Brennan Center for Justice provided industry research and data analysis for Is Your Gourmet Grocery a Sweatshop?, a new report by New York Jobs with Justice and Queens College Labor Resource Center. This report shows that high prices at gourmet groceries do not mean high wages for workers. In fact, many workers face not just low wages, but no overtime pay, few benefits, discrimination, abusive working conditions, and little opportunity for upward mobility.