More than 74,000 people, with an average age of 28, have applied for roles in Zohran Mamdani\u2019s new administration. Those figures are both a measure of enthusiasm for New York City\u2019s incoming mayor and a sign of how tough the job market is for young people in the five boroughs.<\/p>\n
Young voters and volunteers fueled the 34-year-old Mamdani\u2019s fast rise from a relatively unknown Queens assemblyman to mayor-elect of America\u2019s largest city. A lot of them had time on their hands: New Yorkers aged 16 to 24 faced a 13.2% unemployment rate in 2024, 3.6 percentage points higher than in 2019, according to a May report<\/a> from the New York state comptroller. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 74,000 people, with an average age of 28, have applied for roles in Zohran Mamdani\u2019s new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11016,8569,37240,3339,10595,609,3415,9,24,55,54,56,122,37239,13454],"class_list":["post-73591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-ana-champeny","tag-august","tag-barack-h-obama","tag-cities","tag-equality","tag-government","tag-jobs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-queens","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-work-shift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}