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“Community colleges remain a vital resource for students from all backgrounds, especially in New York, where they play a critical role in building the city’s workforce ecosystem.”

ByNicola Blake 0Comments

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Jan 2025

Economy Government Housing and Homelessness NYCHA Opinion

Opinion: Our Affordable Housing Workforce Must Reflect the Communities It Serves

“Right now, roles in the affordable housing sector remain unfilled, and working-class New Yorkers continue to face unemployment or find themselves stuck in jobs with little potential for economic mobility.”

ByShawn Hegele

ByChristina Harsch 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Government Labor Opinion

Opinion: Employment Matters to the Disabled Community

“Vocational salience allows all human beings to find purpose, social involvement, aspiration, life achievement, monetary reward, and the opportunity to offer themselves to the world as a change agent.”

ByHarvey Epstein

BySharon McLennon Wier 0Comments

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Oct 2024

Education Government Opinion Transportation

Opinion: How a Queens STEAM Center at JFK Will Elevate Education

“We envision our students graduating with work experience that prepares them to get paid internships, prior learning credits, and to launch careers at JFK Airport.”

ByNantasha Williams

ByAlicia Hyndman

ByKhaleel M. Anderson 0Comments

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Mar 2023

Education Government

City to Offer Alternative Summer Career Program Open to Undocumented Youth

The city will offer a work-readiness training program this summer open to undocumented youth, City Limits has learned—answering calls from advocates and lawmakers who’ve been pushing for an alternative to…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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May 2022

Government Health

1 in Every 200 NYC Children Have Lost a Parent or Caregiver to COVID. That’s Almost Twice the National Rate.

Black, Hispanic and Asian children in the city are around three times more likely to have lost a parent or caregiver compared to their white peers, a new analysis reveals.

ByFazil Khan, Columbia Journalism Investigations 0Comments

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Apr 2019

Economy Education In Depth

Are City Schools and Hospitals Doing Enough to Diversify Medicine?

Reducing racial disparities within the practice of medicine will take work by elementary-school teachers, high-school counselors, college programs, med schools and mentor physicians. But the work starts with letting Black…

ByBob Kirsch 2Comments

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Jul 2017

Uncategorized

Get a (City) Job: NYC’s Monthly Career Exam Schedule

From school safety to marine engineering, the city is offering tests for new workers and current employees looking to move up.

ByJarrett Murphy 1Comment

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Feb 2016

Economy

Call for Year-Round Job for All NYC High-School Kids

An advocacy group says the Summer Youth Employment Program, a valuable but limited tool, ought to be improved and expanded to increase the connection between what city kids study in…

ByLelosa Imasuen 1Comment

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Jul 2015

In Depth Video

Is Your Job Meaningful?

A recent survey asked workers to rank the most and least meaningful jobs. But this video report finds that meaning is in the eye of the beholder. Breaking into meaningful…

ByMarc Bussanich 0Comments

Opinion: Community College Students Face Ongoing Challenges