Economic Issues

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Economic Issues

People in New York have been dealing with economic problems such as unemployment, rising rents, and low incomes and salaries. In New York, there has been an issue with unemployment for a long time. The problem of unemployment has arisen as a result of population growth; work opportunities are insufficient to meet the needs of everyone in the population. New Yorkers who have lost their jobs can apply for unemployment benefits through the New York State Department of Labor. Joblessness in New York is commonly referred to as unemployment insurance. Unemployment insurance coverage, on the other hand, is not guaranteed to all unemployed individuals in the state.

The harsh reality is that several of the city’s most essential industries, such as finance and Marketing, are unlikely to see significant job growth in the next decades. In several other high-end businesses, New York City is losing jobs and market share to the surrounding region. New York City faces far-reaching structural economic issues that, if left unchecked by city leaders, will restrict job creation in the five boroughs for a long time. Manufacturing industries and Fortune 500 corporations are no longer the only ones abandoning the city for less expensive locations. Securities firms, advertising agencies, publishers, and other high-wage service sectors are rapidly shifting units out of the city, or preferring to create the majority of their new positions abroad, thanks to globalization and technological advancements. Even though New York remains the nation’s financial hub, the state has only accounted for 3% of all securities positions generated since 1987, consequently, the city’s share of national securities positions has dropped from 36percent to 23percent over the same period.

Despite its famous background as an entrepreneurial hotbed, the data finds that New York trails behind most other cities and several of its suburbs—as an incubator of growth enterprises. Only five of the top ten fastest-growing companies in the New York region were based in the city in 2001. Only 31percent of the total venture capital spent in the region in the first half of 2003 went to enterprises in the five boroughs. However, having to focus the city’s economic development plan solely on Wall Street will not help it flourish in the future. New York has been sensitive to trends like centralization of industry, which has been developing for nearly a decade and was magnified and accelerated by the city’s long-standing strategy of doing whatever it takes to keep large firms in industries like finance and expecting everything else to follow.

Excessive reliance on Wall Street has also enabled the city’s economy to deteriorate from one of the most resilient to one which fluctuates dramatically with the stock market’s ups and downs and performs poorly in the US economy during boom and bust periods. Although the city’s unemployment rate was much lower than the national level in 1950 and 1960, it’s been higher than the national rate in 28 of the last 32 years. What’s needed is a fresh, forward-thinking economic development plan focused on boosting long-term growth in a variety of industries, restoring entrepreneurial vigor, fostering a more welcoming environment for expanding businesses, and improving the overall quality of life. As part of this, the city must see all five boroughs as potential growth zones. It should also make use of numerous powerful local assets that have previously gone largely untapped, such as the city’s entrepreneurial immigrant community and dense concentration of academic research institutes.

New York has the innate capabilities to solve these formidable obstacles. Most cities can only dream of having the financial, human, and cultural capital that the city has. It is still substantially ahead of where it bottomed out in the early 1990s, despite nearly three years of recession.

References

McKinsey (2019). New York City Economic Development Corporation. “Sustaining New York’s and the US Global Financial Services Leadership” (PDF). The city of New York.

P. Richard (2018). “Cornell Alumnus Is Behind $350 Million Gift to Build Science School in City”. The New York Times. Retrieved August 1, 2014.