As the national economy recovers from the pandemic and begins to take off, New York City is lagging, with changing patterns of work and travel threatening the engines that have long powered its jobs and prosperity, the New York Times reported. New York has suffered deeper job losses as a share of its work force than any other big American city. And while the country has regained two-thirds of the positions it lost after the coronavirus arrived, New York has recouped fewer than half, leaving a deficit of more than 500,000 jobs. New York City lost the greatest share of jobs among the 20 largest U.S. cities. The city had an 11.8 percent decline in jobs from February 2020 to April 2021, almost three times the loss on the national level.
