Monday, September 11, 2017
Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere
Unemployment rates are down for New York state overall, but wide swaths of upstate had fewer jobs in 2016 than in 2011, according to a new report.
New York's unemployment rate is at 4.8 percent and more than 9 million New Yorkers were part of the workforce last year, the highest number the state has seen since the recession in 2008, the report from Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found.
But that success is uneven across the state.
Downstate areas like New York City and Long Island have shown a lower unemployment rate and an increased number of participants in the workforce over the past five years. . .