Vallone demands that city provide more data on
progress of mayor’s New York Works jobs plan
Council members Paul Vallone and Ritchie Torres are calling on the city to provide more data on New York Works jobs plan Photo courtesy of the New York City Council
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Following Mayor de Blasio’s
promise to create 100,000
“good paying jobs” over 10
years, a Queens councilman
is calling on the city to show
its progress in creating these
jobs.At the Sept. 25 Stated Meeting,
Councilmen Paul Vallone
and Ritchie Torres introduced
legislation requiring the NYC
Economic Development Corporation
(EDC) to deliver annual
reports about the mayor’s
New York Works initiative.
The law states that the reports
must detail the city’s
progress of attaining job creation
for New Yorkers, which
would then be delivered to the
City Council and published on
the New York Works website
yearly through 2027.
Information available
through the report would
include data concerning job
creation progress and information
about those who had
obtained employment through
the program. The report would
include further demographic
information broken down by
education level, race and ethnicity,
gender and whether the
individuals are New York City
residents.
The report would also
break down data by salary,
borough, company and number
of jobs per contract if a
company is contracted by the
city.
“While the New York
Works jobs plan presents an
ambitious workforce development
plan for our city, projections
and estimates do not
provide tangible evidence that
these efforts are actually materializing
into real jobs for
our New Yorkers,” said Vallone,
chair of the Committee
on Economic Development.
“Transparent reporting at
a granular level would help
develop a clear jobs plan that
While the New York Works jobs plan
presents an ambitious workforce
development plan for our city,
projections and estimates do not
provide tangible evidence that these
efforts are actually materializing into
real jobs for our New Yorkers.
Paul Vallone
defines how the city is going
to build on the great work that
EDC has been doing for years
while ensuring that New Yorkers
of every background are
being connected to truly good
paying jobs.”
De Blasio announced the
New York Works jobs plan in
2017, which set out to create
100,000 good paying jobs over
a decade. The term “good paying
jobs” is defined as jobs
paying $50,000 or more per
year or are on a pathway to
paying that wage.
But back in March 2018, a
joint hearing between the Committees
on Economic Development
and Oversight and Investigation
revealed a need for
more information on the plan’s
progress and who had become
employed under the plan.
After the hearing, a New
York Works Progress Update
reported that EDC “directly
created 3,725 full-time, private
sector jobs, of which 3,072 (or
82 ) are good-paying jobs.”
“It is unclear whether NY
Works is creating good-paying
jobs for New Yorkers who
need them the most, and if
the plan will actually meet its
stated goal of creating 100,000
good-paying jobs,” said Torres,
chair of the Committee on
Oversight and Investigation.
“This reporting bill will allow
us to track if NYWorks is meeting
its goals, make the plan accountable
to New Yorkers, and
ensure that jobs are going to
New Yorkers who are seeking
a path to the middle-class.”
Reach reporter Jenna Bagcal
by e-mail at jbagcal@qns.
com or by phone at (718) 260-
2583.
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