NYC has only connected 2,000 migrants with jobs — as thousands more overwhelm city shelters
By Social Links forHaley Brown and Social Links forCraig McCarthy
Published June 12, 2024, 12:30 p.m. ET
Just over 2,000 migrants in New York City have been connected with a job under the Adams administration’s ongoing push — as the city has had trouble progressing on a plan to end the continuing crisis by putting immigrants to work.
Only about half of the 9,000 migrants contacted by New York’s much-hyped Workforce1 program since last October even responded to the effort to link them with employers, Small Business Services department official Dynishal Gross told the City Council on Tuesday.
And the majority of the roughly 5,500 migrants reached by agents from the department failed to even get a job, as only 2,000 wound up getting work, Gross testified.
The city can only show it has connected 2,000 of the tens of thousands of work-eligible migrants in NYC with a job.
The figures provide the first glimpse into City Hall’s slow-going efforts to get jobs for asylum seekers, which the mayor and his team have insisted is the only way to lower the number of migrants in city care.
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