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Ramos pledges job guarantee program if elected mayor

BY DUNCAN FREEMAN
Posted 4/18/25

"By 2030, we will guarantee that every New Yorker ages 18 to 26 is either employed or enrolled in school, because no young person in New York City should be left out." 

That was the promise State Senator Jessica Ramos made Wednesday when announcing her “One Good Job” platform, an employment guarantee she pledged to implement if elected mayor this year. Speaking inside Bowling Green in Lower Manhattan, Ramos called on the legacies of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to pitch her plan as a “modern day New Deal for our city.” 

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