Fleeing families will leave New York without a futureBy NY Post Editorial Board
July 29, 2022
New York City has been driving away families with kids, a trend that makes for a much meaner town.
COVID was one huge factor: Per data from the Economic Innovation Group, Manhattan lost 9.5% of its under-5 population during the two years of the pandemic.
That’s far more than the national large-city average of 5.4%; San Francisco came close, dropping 7.6% of under-5s.
Which suggests that local pandemic responses were a big factor, as left-leaning leaders went heavy on lockdowns and prolonged school closures. When even parks and playgrounds are padlocked, life becomes a living hell for young children and their parents.
And non-COVID trends hit hard, especially in Gotham, as the cumulative effect of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s policies and the state’s heavy-handed criminal-justice “reforms” saw crime jumping from its historic lows. City homicides rose 46.5% in 2021 over 2014 (the year Blas took over); car thefts up 35.8%; felony assaults up 13%. No one wants to raise a family in that environment.
De Blasio’s war on excellence in public education hurt, too: Crucially, he cut back Gifted and Talented classes and engineered the end of selective admissions to middle and high schools in several districts — leaving his successor a cockamamie system for the whole city that’s directed countless kids this fall to schools they never wanted.
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https://nypost.com/2022/07/29/fleeing-families-will-leave-new-york-without-a-future/