State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli has urged Mayor Adams to find ways to cut agency spending by 3 percent “without the need for layoffs or service cuts,” citing a 5.5-percent decline in the municipal workforce.
A recently released report found that the city’s full-time public-sector workforce dropped from 301,446 to 283,809 between June 2020 and November 2021, which was one effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
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