It is a long term commitment. The bosses of 27 large companies present in New York, including the bank JPMorgan Chase, IBM or Amazon, pledged Tuesday to hire 100,000 low-income people and / or from black, Latino and Asian minorities, by 2030.
Gathered in the "Council of CEOs for Jobs in New York", they say they want to work with educational institutions, community organizations and associations, to help the careers of disadvantaged New Yorkers.
Promote learning
They notably propose to offer jobs or apprenticeship positions to 25,000 students of CUNY public university, to use their resources and networks, and to share their best practices.
"Our mission is to ensure that residents of New York's most vulnerable communities can access the skills they need to pursue promising careers and benefit from the city's economic recovery," said Gail Mellow, who leads this new group, in a press release.
A health crisis that accentuates inequalities
The New York metropolis, these bosses point out, is the richest in the United States. The Covid-19 crisis has accentuated inequalities, with disadvantaged people more often affected by illness and / or the loss of their jobs.
But "even before the pandemic, which had a disproportionate impact on low-income black, Latino and Asian communities, unemployment in the Bronx was 85% higher than in Manhattan," they point out. “At the same time, jobs in high demand have not been filled, with less than 400,000 unemployed in New York in 2018-2019 but many more offers,” they add.
Large financial institutions, consulting firms, technology groups, hospitals, media and telecom operators are represented on the new Council.
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