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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 2024

Housing and Homelessness Labor Opinion

Opinion: For a More Equitable Supportive Housing Workforce, Promote From Within

“Black New Yorkers are disproportionately affected by homelessness, making up 58 percent of shelter residents; 80 percent of the workers caring for these individuals are women of color, yet the…

ByChinetta Mitchell

ByChandra Redfern 0Comments

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Jan 2024

Labor

Opinion: ‘Women Forward NYC’ Can’t Succeed While the Mayor Cuts Child Care

There is no equality without affordable child care. Yet despite claiming to stand up for women, since entering office, the mayor has made cut after cut to pre-K and 3-K…

ByRebecca Bailin 0Comments

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Jun 2022

Economy Education Government Opinion

Opinion: Undocumented Youth Deserve Access to Summer Youth Employment

“Ultimately it further stratifies our city, which is already full of haves and have-nots, and leaves a generation of young folks without the necessary conduit to refine their workforce development…

ByJason Autar 0Comments

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Jun 2021

Economy Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Addressing New York’s Systemic Inequities Will Be Core to its COVID Recovery

‘We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past, where recoveries after the Great Recession, the Sept. 11 attacks, and the early 90s recession exacerbated systemic inequities rather than addressing them.…

ByBarika Williams

ByJose Ortiz, Jr.

ByTom Wright 0Comments

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Dec 2020

Economy Opinion

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

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.

ByJeremy Kohomban, Alastair Short and Deborah Finley-Troup 0Comments

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Dec 2020

Economy Opinion

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

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…

BySharon Sewell-Fairman 0Comments

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Nov 2017

Housing and Homelessness News

Workforce Referral Networks: The Hot New Approach to Local Hiring

An increasing number of communities are forming workforce referral systems modeled after the Lower East Side Employment Network.

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 2Comments

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Jul 2017

Economy In Depth

Older Gig Economy Workers Face Unique Challenges

The popular image of a gig economy worker is of a Milennial with little interest in traditional employment. But older workers, who have left or been forced from regular jobs,…

ByArturo Conde 1Comment

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Jun 2017

Housing and Homelessness

Inwood Sees City’s Plan Take Shape, Awaits Details on Zoning Proposal

Local officials and the EDC say the strategy they unveiled this week reflects a healthy amount of community input. But it’s still unclear whether the city’s rezoning pitch will…

ByAbigail Savitch-Lew 4Comments

Opinion: Community College Students Face Ongoing Challenges