The unemployment rate for Black New Yorkers remains startlingly and consistently high (12% in May), especially when compared to white New Yorkers (1.3%). Greg David, contributor covering fiscal and economic issues for The City and director of the business and economics reporting program at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the author of Modern New York: The Life and Economics of a City (St. Martin’s Press, 2012), and freelance reporter Safiyah Riddle, who co-reported the story for The City talk about this major disparity, and what policymakers are doing to address it.
Plus: Greg explains a New York judge’s surprise decision that stripped former President Trump of control of some of his properties.
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