City Comptroller Scott Stringer Oct. 14 shared a workforce-development plan that would provide free community college at the City University of New York and expand job-training programs to grow a city economy that has been bludgeoned by COVID-19.
With 602,700 fewer private-sector jobs compared to last year and a $9-billion budget shortfall, the city has struggled to recover from the pandemic. Although the city’s unemployment rate dropped between July and August—the most recently-available data—it was still twice the nationwide average at 16 percent, according to the state Department of Labor.
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