27 business giants, including Amazon and Google, will employ 100 New Yorkers

Amazon, Google, JPMorgan Chase and two dozen other tech giants have pledged to hire 100 New York City minorities. The edition writes about it New York Post.

Thousands of low-income blacks, Hispanics and Asians, as well as 25 CUNY students, will have a chance of successful employment. They will be helped in this by 27 corporate titans who have formed the New York Board of Directors for Jobs.

The formation of the coalition was announced on Tuesday 11 August. It includes firms from a wide range of industries that will partner with colleges and non-profit organizations. The purpose of such cooperation will be training, internship and employment assistance to vulnerable categories of citizens. “As companies with a long-standing commitment to New York City and its people, we use our collective resource to prepare the city's workforce for future skills and help New Yorkers left behind to get their little chance,” said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon (Jamie Dimon).

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Daimon will co-chair the board alongside CEOs from McKinsey, Accenture, IBM and EY. Former President of LaGuardia Community College, Gail Mellow, will serve as executive director. Other executives involved include Satya Nadella of Microsoft, John McAvoy of Con Edison, Meredith Kopit Levien of The New York Times Company, and Larry Fink of investment giant BlackRock.

The decision to help with employment of unprotected segments of the population was made in connection with the coronavirus pandemic. Black and Hispanic New Yorkers were particularly affected. This caused a nationwide economic downturn, leaving millions of people unemployed. “Our mission is to ensure that people in New York's most vulnerable neighborhoods have access to the skills they need to pursue rewarding careers and benefit from the city's economic recovery,” Mellow said in a statement.

Another reason for the formation of the coalition stems from the massive protests against racism and police brutality that shook New York and other cities after the police assassination of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Several councilors, including Daimon, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and Sundar Pichai of Google, have expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement in recent months.