- The deadliest jobs in the U.S. for 2019 were the highest in 12 years, with glaring racial disparities among the U.S. Department of Labor statistics.
- U.S. airlines employed 673,278 workers in October, or 81,749 fewer jobs than before the pandemic hit in March.
- The very good news: Campuses across the nation’s largest urban public university system are producing thousands more graduates with the skills and credentials to fill the jobs powering the future than they were a decade ago.
- The U.S. job market showed a surprising burst of strength in October, with employers adding 638,000 jobs and the unemployment rate tumbling to 6.9%.
- When New Yorkers began to realize that the COVID-19 pandemic was a serious health threat, I repeatedly heard people say, “We’re all in this together.” But this well-intentioned sentiment didn’t reflect the reality of the lives of millions of New Yorkers.
- More women left the workforce in September than jobs were added, according to a new report.
- The architect of one of the oddest plans in football was canned Monday.
- A popular narrative in New York right now is one of hope: a classic New Yorker’s hope, with gritted teeth and determination, bold laughter in the face of uncertainty and a focus on our bright future that verges on fanaticism.
- Anthony Jefferson was struck in the thigh during the Monday evening shootout in Eastchester and left unable to walk, so he lost his two jobs as a painter for a construction company and construction worker, his wife Danica Jefferson told TMZ.
- An opponent of the Industry City rezoning proposal in Sunset Park recently admitted in this paper that our neighbors do, in fact, desperately need jobs, but that if new economic opportunities for local residents might also potentially create upward pressure on rents, then job creation must be sacrificed. As both a resident of Sunset Park and the founder of an MWBE-owned small business in the neighborhood, I find this position not only short-sighted and damaging to our community’s future, but also logically and factually flawed in a number of ways.