100,000 New Jobs for New York: Will Enough Go to Poorer Workers?

Ya’seen Madyun, who has struggled to find work since graduating, despite training in a few fields, near his home in Far Rockaway, Queens, June 13, 2018. Some fear that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s program to create jobs paying at least $50,000 is not reaching people in the city’s poorest neighborhoods. (Ryan Christopher Jones/The New York Times)