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The City’s economy gained 111,000 jobs between July and August 2020, reflecting a slow and partial recovery from the crushing COVID lockdown. This was a modest but meaningful improvement, but the City’s employment base is still way below its pre-COVID level of February 2020. The data come from a monthly seasonally adjusted calculation performed by…
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The Presidential campaign’s intensity took a dramatic turn last week when both candidates visited Kenosha,Wisconsin, following a set of tragic events in that small city. An unarmed African-American man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back by police, angry protests followed that included some destruction of property, and then a teenage white vigilante who…
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The Democratic Party surely hoped, as a result of its convention, that its presentation of an ethnically and culturally diverse America validating its ticket would have broad appeal to a national audience. It won me over, as I am sure it did for practically every Democrat in the country. Practically every Democrat, I am also…
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New York State’s pandemic-induced mass mail-in balloting for the Presidential and other primary elections this past June 23rd received national attention as the poster child for what can go wrong with mail ballots. There’s no time now to point fingers or spend time denouncing Donald Trump. The General Election is less than thirteen weeks away…
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Congress returned to Washington D.C this past week and New Yorkers have a big stake in the outcome of any new Federal package of aid for a nation devastated by the Coronavirus outbreak. No Clear Signals on New Aid to State and Local Government More than two months have elapsed since the Democrats in the…
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The Board of Elections reports that canvassing for a number of Assembly Democratic primaries begins Monday, July 20th, including several highly competitive primaries in Brooklyn and one in Queens. The 57th Assembly district Democratic primary between incumbent Walter Mosley and challenger Phara Forrest will canvass 14,000 absentee ballot returns. Mosley led on Primary Day by…
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Labor statistics can be very confusing, especially for the general public. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its June 2020 employment report on July 3rd, and while it did show an uptick in employment across the nation, economic pain remains widespread. The numbers for New York City and New York State, while they lag…
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The New York City Board of Elections reported on Thursday evening, July 2nd, that 384,000 ballots had been counted as returned for the Democratic primary on June 23rd, out of 767,000 sent out. With the in-person tally on the day of the primary around 500,000, this means that the tally of the two combined, 884,000,…
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DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ABSENTEE BALLOT UPDATE 6/29 COUNTY SENT RETURNED PCT. RTD New York 230,699 90,506 39% Bronx 96,292 36,870 38% Brooklyn 230,442 66,278 29% Queens 182,064 77,572 43% Staten Island 24,975 12,448 50% TOTAL 764,472 283,674 37% The New York City Board of Elections reports that 283,000 absentee ballots have been returned by Democratic voters…
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The New York City Board of Elections is reporting that over 765,000 absentee ballots were distributed to voters before primary day, June 23, vastly exceeding a tally of in-person votes in the Democratic presidential primary, which came to 471,000, with 96% of election precincts reporting. The number of absentee ballots returned is not fully known yet, and none…