New jobs in Queens
Create new jobs in Queens.
Occurrences
Evidence
Project Name: YMCA of Greater New York – Flushing & Ridgewood Branches ... This project will serve to enhance youth and community development programs at two YMCA locations, one in Flushing, and the other in Ridgewood. Over the course of the upcoming federal fiscal year, this funding will enable the Y to continue to provide time-tested youth development programs catered to school age youth, such as after school care, aquatics and water safety, youth sports, drop-in teen center and youth employment and career readiness programs. Additionally, YMCA programs and facilities serve as community economic development engines offering employment opportunities to local community members and providing childcare to working parents.
Assessments
The evidence shows Grace Meng sought or supported federal community project funding for Queens-based programs that include youth employment, career readiness, local employment opportunities, childcare support for working parents, and broader community economic development. That is a relevant effort toward creating jobs in Queens, but the cited record is an appropriations request and program description rather than evidence that a defined number of new Queens jobs were actually created or that a job-creation program was enacted and implemented because of her action. Because the promise is broad and the available evidence supports material effort but not confirmed delivery of the promised outcome, partial credit is appropriate.