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Daily News Op-Ed: Getting & keeping workers for NYC’s government

Read the full op-ed at Daily News. — As the restaurant industry scrambles to hire staff and hospitals are down nurses and doctors, city government in New York is also short on people and it’s causing major problems. There are 23,000 vacant positions across city government and thousands more that Mayor Adams cut to help trim the […]

Grace Rauh: Calls for the City to Recruit Tech Workers for NYC Public Jobs

Grace Rauh the Executive Director of the Five Borough Institute spoke live on 1010 WINS Newsline with Budd Mishkin about why the city should take advantage of the recent lay-offs in the tech industry.

Daily News Op-Ed: Recruit Tech Workers for NYC Public Jobs

Recent tech sector layoffs are of course not the same scale as these other moments of global upheaval, but the same formula applies: hardship creates opportunity, if the right leaders seize it.

NEW YORK TIMES: The Influential Group Helping Eric Adams Identify a Vision for New York

A group of New York City business and civic leaders is backing an initiative to create a handful of important, realistic policy goals for Mayor Eric Adams, filling what they believe is a critical hole in his administration’s vision for the city.

Politico: Adams Ally to Launch Municipal Think Tank

The group is being established as a “non-profit, non-partisan clearinghouse for great urban policy ideas and pragmatic solutions to chronic problems,” according to a four-page memo.

5BORO: Public Service Loan Forgiveness

This is why we urge everyone to spread the word of an important and looming deadline — October 31st, 2022 — that, if they act in time, can bring major financial relief to 250,000 New Yorkers in public and nonprofit jobs who have active student loans.