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workforce

Opinion: How City Nonprofits Can Diversify Their Workforce and Leadership Teams

By Jeremy Kohomban, Alastair Short and Deborah Finley-Troup | December 30, 2020

We made the change by changing our culture—and how we worked—to intentionally identify, mentor, network, promote and hire individuals that improved our outcomes and enhanced the organization’s diversity.

Economy

Opinion: How We Can Rebuild NYC’s Hospitality and Retail Industries

By Sharon Sewell-Fairman | December 22, 2020

To ensure a stable recovery, the hospitality and retail sectors—which historically employ high numbers of people of color, young adults, immigrants and entry-level workers—must find creative solutions to rebuild their workforces.

Economy

Data Drop: Trump, Manufacturing and NYC

By Jarrett Murphy | October 26, 2020

The president’s tax cut and tougher trade policies led to a brief rise in national manufacturing jobs numbers. New York didn’t benefit from the bump.

Una Ciudad sin Límites

Los trabajadores hispanos y afroamericanos enfrentan las mayores pérdidas de empleo a lo largo de la pandemia

By Daniel Parra | August 31, 2020

Según las últimas cifras del departamento de trabajo del estado de Nueva York, el Bronx, el condado con mayor número de hispanos, tiene la mayor tasa de desempleo de todo el estado: 24.9 por ciento.

Coronavirus

NYC Faces ‘Deep and Enduring Unemployment,’ Says Report

By Nicole Javorsky | July 1, 2020

As the third phase of reopening starts next week, an analysis of unemployment data points to a long road ahead for the city’s economic recovery.

Agenda 2019

Max & Murphy: State Comptroller on Bullying, Billionaires and the Budget

By Jarrett Murphy | March 14, 2019

‘The reality is if you lose even a handful of those billionaires or multi-millionaires, those who have two or three houses somewhere else and can pretty quickly change their legal address and avoid New York taxes, it does have an impact.’

Andrew Cuomo

We’ve Got Issues: Candidates for Governor on the Economy

By Jarrett Murphy | November 5, 2018

While Andrew Cuomo’s economic record and rhetoric are complicated, Republican challenger Marcus Molinaro largely proposes a familiar menu of tax cuts, regulatory rollbacks and spending restrictions.

Uncategorized

CityViews: An Urgent Need to Address Our City’s Human Dignity Crisis

By Seher Khawaja | August 14, 2017

“The staggering mismatch in wages and housing costs undeniably demonstrates that we face a human dignity crisis in our urban centers that stems not from the lack of individual self-motivation but from spiraling market misalignments.”

abortion

Abortion to Outsourcing, Racism to Lies, What Some Bronx Highschoolers Think Matters in Election ’16

By Tristan Cruz, Chelsea Almonte, Amy Angeles, Henry Mandel, Jamie Schiller and Alana Brown | November 4, 2016

We asked a class of journalism students students to identify what they feel is the most important issue in the election next Tuesday. Here are their (almost completely unfiltered) views.

The Work Site

WorkSite: City’s Economy Grows, but Labor Force Shrinks

By Jarrett Murphy | November 13, 2015

The five boroughs are outpacing the 50 states when it comes to output, and unemployment rates have fallen for all five boroughs. But there was also a record drop in the number of New Yorkers who are either in a job or looking for one.

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