Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Year : 2, Issue : 11
New York City’s mayor is touting another all-time high for the total number of jobs ever in city history – a major bounce back since the height of the pande mic, but there’s still more work to be done, particularly in the Black community where the unemployment rate is still high. There are now more people working in New York City than ever before. From bagel bakers to white collar office workers.
More people are using mass transit now than at any time since the pandemic. City officials say there are now 4.7 million jobs in the city-an all-time high. “This is the highest number of jobs in New York City history,” Mayor Eric Adams said. “More jobs than ever before! And nearly 300,000 of those jobs were created in the two years this administration has been in office.”
The mayor credits his administration’s efforts to empower small businesses and to spread the word about job openings, but he admits that unemployment in the city’s minority communities-specifically the Black community-is still too high.
“The goal is to create the opportunities, utilize our workforce centers and other apparatus to go into those communities that have historically been ignored and show them a pathway to employment,” Adams said.
Source: ABC7 News
