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CUF in the News

	Illiteracy takes a toll on job-hunting New Yorkers; jail also a big drawback, New York Daily News, February 8, 2010
	Joblessness and the Skills Gap, Huffington Post, January 28, 2010
	Boro has most low-wage workers in city: Study, Queens Times Ledger, January 28, 2010
	In Kingsbridge: Will Derailing a Bad Project Lead to a Good One?, Gotham Gazette, January 22, 2010
	Boro immigrants make gains, New York Post, January 21, 2010
	Policy group urges retooling of Columbia plan, The Real Deal, January 21, 2010
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New York by the Numbers

Economic snapshots of the 5 boroughs

This month's data... This edition of New York by the Numbers reveals that nearly a third of all adult workers in New York City are employed in low-wage jobs. While the percentage of low-wage workers is high across the city, the Bronx is in a league of its own, with 42 percent of the boroughs workers in low-wage jobs.

Recipe For Growth

This Off the CUF commentary urges city economic development officials to support the creation of additional kitchen incubators, which give food entrepreneurs something that's often impossible to find in New York: a licensed commercial kitchen at affordable rates.

By Mark Foggin

June 2008 | DOWNLOAD PDF

Updates

In June 2008, the Center for an Urban Future published a policy brief titled Recipe for Growth that urged city economic development officials to create additional kitchen incubators. The piece, authored by Mark Foggin, showed that kitchen incubators give food entrepreneurs something that's often impossible to find in New York: a licensed commercial kitchen at affordable rates. Yet it revealed that there were only four of these shared facilities in the five boroughs, serving a total of 60 entrepreneursa fraction of the demand in a city that boasts a growing number of entrepreneurs who are trying their hand at food manufacturing and catering, from high-end chocolates and gourmet pickles to empanadas and Indian sweets.

City officials have now embraced our recommendation. On August 4th, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and the New York City Council announced a plan to build a kitchen incubator in East Harlem that will help aspiring entrepreneurs launch bakeries, catering firms and other food manufacturing businesses.

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