Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Wall Street and other top business leaders joined in the debate over the growing number of asylum-seekers in the city, calling on the Biden administration to provide New York City with much-needed assistance and arguing that migrants could help solve a labor shortage.
The urged the federal officials urged to “take immediate action to better control the border,” and requested federal relief “for educational, housing, security, and health care services to offset the costs that local and state governments are incurring with limited federal aid.” “It's causing a fiscal challenge for the city, but it's really a humanitarian crisis,” said Wylde in an interview with Gothamist. “These are people, families for the most part, 20% of them kids who have at enormous sacrifice made their way to the United States and then mostly [been] bussed to New York City.”
“There are an estimated 10,000 job openings that can't be filled in New York City and restaurants are actually not opening for lunch in some cases because they don't have enough workers,” Wylde said.