Sentences with phrase «of city residents working»

«Any way you cut the numbers — poverty rate, unemployment rate, actual number of city residents working — they lag behind where things stood prior to the Great Recession of 2008 — 09,» Heaney writes.

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«Meet People Who Don't Work in Tech,» reads the ad on Facebook by San Francisco - based startup UpOut, seeming to voice a collective desire of city residents.

Livingston, Chmielarz and McArthur, a resident of Ellicott City, Md., also worked together to steal databases containing the personal information of millions of Americans for use in spam campaigns, prosecutors said.

Few cities can top Los Angeles for excess and glamour, but most of its residents don't work in Hollywood or shop on Rodeo Drive.

Many of Darien's residents are wealthy business professionals that commute to Manhattan or other nearby cities for work.

The city was originally known for its agriculture, but the majority of its employed residents now work in management, business or finance.

As much as 72 % of its 2 million residents drive alone to work, with an average commute time of 26 minutes — the longest among our 10 featured cities.

The city also has a vibrant ArtWalk, a public - walk featuring the work of Tualatin residents.

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«In no way will Amazon's decision slow our pursuit of a strong growth agenda for Baltimore, as we work to attract new investment, quality job opportunities, and importantly, new residents to a city celebrated for its diversity, and its rich higher educational, athletic, cultural, medical, and maritime assets.

According to City - Data, nearly all of the residents (99 %) here either drive or carpool to work, with the average commute duration being 19 minutes.

The prosperous postwar economy fostered the exodus of an upwardly mobile working class from the city in search of the more genuinely American housing to be found in the suburbs, and at the same time, the entry - level skilled and semiskilled manufacturing jobs once held by project residents disappeared from the urban core.

As the new citizens — now literally citizens, residents of cities — struggled to work out how to relate to the strangers by whom they were surrounded the demand for authoritative rules exploded.

Jilly was instrumental in the creation and expansion of Healthy Neighborhoods, an extension of City Harvest's anti-hunger work designed to respond to the need for emergency food, improve access to fruits and vegetables for residents in low - income communities and provide nutrition education to inspire affordable, healthy meal choices.

As the custodians of Times Square, the Alliance works every day to improve the quality of life for the neighborhood residents and businesses while driving economic growth in New York City.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

Naperville Park District officials have said that the $ 2.5 million sports complex is a necessity in one of the fastest - growing zones in the city and that they are willing to work with residents to alleviate concerns about lighting, noise, flooding, traffic congestion and safety.

In 2017, she became Puppet Showplace Theater's first resident teaching artist after years of experience working with diverse student populations in greater Boston, New York City, Vermont, and Texas.

«Throughout this past session, Sen. Jeff Klein and Sen. Tony Avella worked tirelessly on behalf of the residents of New York City and helped make progress on issues that had been stalled for far too long,» de Blasio said in a statement.

«The 8.5 million residents of New York City deserve a government with the capacity to create schools that work for their students.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.»

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

City resident Kennard Ray, who served on the Metropolitan District Commission board and was a legislative director for the Connecticut Working Families Party, collected enough signatures to get onto the ballot but was disqualified because of a paperwork error.

Voters in the 19th Congressional district are being offered a choice between longtime resident John Faso with a proven track record of cutting budgets, lowering taxes, and working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and a radical New York City academic, with no roots in the district, who supports higher taxes, the Iran Nuclear Deal, and ever larger government in Washington.

Committee Members work with community groups, residents, and city agencies to monitor public safety and quality of life issues.

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

«I say to every resident of the city of Buffalo that we want to reach out to them, that we want to work with them and when we work together, we are a much stronger community and that's what we need to do going forward,» he said.

In Erie County, 41 percent of residents are deemed «working poor,» and in the City of Buffalo alone, that figure jumps up to an astonishing 60 percent.

On the day the city celebrated the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders in southeast Queens urged residents and law enforcement agencies to continue the civil rights leader's work for peace by getting guns off the streets.

Across the city region 12 per cent of working age residents have no formal qualifications, compared with nine per cent nationally.

«As a county legislator, I will work to ensure fairness in economic development and to unify residents in all parts of the district so that we can enjoy our fair share of our city's newfound renaissance,» she said.

It's particularly heartening that a young native of Saugerties chooses to stay in his hometown and work to improve life for its residents rather than head to the big city.

«Nor should they be supplementing the commutation costs of city residents travelling to work at NYC - based businesses.

Now, we must begin the work of healing and uniting for the sake of all New York City residents and the challenges we face.

On this second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the hard work and perseverance of the residents of our city whose lives were forever changed on October 29, 2012.

The New York City Housing Authority, which receives 50,000 new repair requests every week, reduced a backlog of around 350,000 resident work orders in March to 106,000 by the end of the year, nearly hitting the agency's goal of 100,000.

To de Blasio, the BQX is not only a project to propel low - income and working - class residents forward as their waterfront neighborhoods continue to develop, but an investment in the future of the city.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Milwaukee leaders are calling on residents looking for work to consider helping build hundreds of new apartments and homes in the city.

I will continue to work to clean up Cardiff's streets so the millions of people who visit our city every year don't leave with a bad impression, and our residents can live in tidy neighborhoods again.»

«We look forward to working with the city on a plan for the future of Fresh Kills that will benefit Staten Island residents by helping to restore the ecology and natural resources of this area,» Crotty said.

Crews demolishing the former Jesuit retreat house were told they can only work on asbestos abatement after residents filed complaints with the city that work continued despite an earlier stop order, according to the Department of Buildings.

A bill moving quickly through the Legislature would complicate the accounting for a Milwaukee policy that increases residents» chances of working on local public works projects, a city official said.

The victims include dozens of residents of city housing projects, all registered to vote on the Working Families Party line, who had absentee ballots filed in their name that included forged information, including signatures and the excuses for why they could not vote in person.

«Throughout this past session, Sen. Jeff Klein and Sen. Tony Avella worked tirelessly on behalf of the residents of New York City and helped make progress on issues that had been stalled for far too long,» Mr. de Blasio said in a statement.

The city must take this risk or face the prospect of more residents without jobs and more skilled construction workers traveling elsewhere for work, said Ricardo Gutierrez, business representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 494 in Milwaukee.

The second pair of boots will ensure that New York City firefighters will continue to perform the excellent work that the residents of New York City come to expect.»

Another Democratic primary challenger, Alfonso Davis, said there is a lot of economic development going on in the city, but he questions if city residents are the ones working on those jobs.

New York State often combines New York City census tracts that are commercially attractive with census tracts where many residents are out of work, and has drawn among the highest amount of foreign investment from the visa program.

Dennis, who works with the precinct serving New York City Housing Authority Developments throughout Queens, claimed residents of the borough's public housing apartments live in fear due to a spike in crime and what feels like a lacking relationship with police officers.