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Events
02-15-2012 - Meet the Retail Employers
01-31-2012 - CBO Network Meeting (9:00-11:30am). Details to be announced.
01-24-2012 - The JobsFirstNYC/WPTI Job Developer Networking Event (8-10:30 a.m.) at Sheraton Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn. Registration details to follow.
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Building Partnerships and Brighter Futures for Young Adults
JobsFirst NYC works behind the scenes to improve services for New York City's out-of-school and out-of-work young adults. As an intermediary, we foster partnerships among service providers, engage the business community in solutions, and secure funding to support innovative programs. We are a catalyst for connecting young people to the workforce.
Did you know . . .
- More than 200,000 New York City residents between the ages of 16
and 24 are completely disconnected from employment, school, or training
- essentially sitting idle with no prospects. As a separate
group, they would constitute the third largest city in New York State.
- Fewer young people are in the labor force than at any time since the Great Depression. Even those with a college degree face more competition for jobs than at any time in recent history.
- On any given day, a young minority male high school dropout in New York City is more likely to be incarcerated than working - each one at a direct cost to New York's tax payers of between $35,000 and $225,000 per year.
- Each high school dropout costs the country over $300,000 in lost
tax revenue, greater demand for social services, and higher
incarceration rates. The social impacts are just as great - less
stable families, more dangerous communities.
- New York City is home to hundreds of non-profits, government agencies, philanthropies, private businesses and individuals dedicated to creating opportunities for all young people . . . but generally working with little coordination.
JobsFirst NYC exists to change these realities. Join us in this important work.
