Employment
With expiration of their time in free city beds fast approaching, some migrants are racing to find a place to rent while others are unsure where they will end up.
Animal Care Centers of NYC cites ‘critical capacity issues’ as it grapples with a surge in people giving up pets, many due to financial pressures.
Work related to film and television production accounts for some 5% of all jobs in the city.
Manhattan has 20% fewer store employees than before the pandemic — and Amazon is a prime reason.
A temporary order bolsters efforts by apps to stop a law that would require them to pay delivery workers $17.96 an hour and make New York the first major U.S. city to set a wage floor for them.
The training program to help bring underrepresented New Yorkers into the film and TV industry has led, on average, to graduates’ salaries growing by 2.4 times.
THE CITY’s June economic recovery analysis shows a jump in office usage, and a small boost on job and unemployment figures.
Union-run mandatory workshops double as outlets for anti-management messages, while staff shortages keep stretches of beach closed.
From the Irish potato famine to the 1970s fiscal crisis, immigration has been key to the city’s growth in ways that are playing out again as asylum-seekers arrive.
Medical residents on the picket line in Queens demand that Mount Sinai, which runs the residents’ program, compensate them on par with their Upper East Side peers.
The Black jobless rate of 12.2% is nine times the white unemployment level, a far wider gap than elsewhere in the U.S.
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Cash assistance and other public benefits are helping more New Yorkers weather an economic climate that’s still tough.
The deadline to apply is April 14. About 100,000 jobs are open for young New Yorkers ages 14 to 24.
Updated state figures show almost 4.7 million jobs, surpassing projections.
Migrants have refused to move from the Watson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen, some citing the long commute and destabilizing transfers as detrimental to their efforts to start a new life in NYC.
Packed hotels and budding new businesses can’t hide looming weaknesses like a sagging tech sector and Wall Street’s woes.
December’s economic update shows the city continues to lag national job growth, hitting more headwinds.
The city will bring in eight lawyers, paid for by their private firms but listed as employees of NYC, to plug a shortage. Critics say it’s just a drop in the bucket.
Income tax collections were up in the state, but not in New York City. We explain why.
Documents show the mayor’s counsel readying to recruit pro bono legal staffing from private law firms, as low pay and strict work conditions leave hundreds of jobs vacant.
A planned overhaul of city workforce training programs aims to help young adults especially hard-hit by pandemic job losses.
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