100,000 New Jobs for New York: Will Enough Go to Poorer Workers?
“While unemployment in New York City is at historic lows — falling to 4.1 percent in April, the lowest since the figure began being tracked — it is far higher in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. In Brownsville, Brooklyn, the unemployment rate is at 14 percent, according to the most recent figures from the New York University Furman Center; in the University Heights and Fordham sections of the Bronx, unemployment is at 12.7 percent.”