Early Addition: NYC ranks as the worst city in America to start your career

James Ramsay

Published May 22, 2023

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James Ramsay

Published May 22, 2023

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Good Monday morning in New York City, where you're never too old to learn to bike. Here's what's happening:

The Black unemployment rate in New York City is currently 12.2%, which is nine times higher than the city's white unemployment rate and far higher than the national Black unemployment rate, which sits at 4.7%. One explanation for the stat: A huge number of working-age, middle-class Black New Yorkers have moved to the South in recent years, because it's too expensive to maintain a middle-class life in the city.
Semi-related: New York City ranked dead last (out of 182) in this new WalletHub study of the best cities to start your career.
Things are at least getting a little better for Gen-X women in the city's workforce, who are filling more leadership roles and accordingly seeing their workplaces become "menopause friendly."
"That slow rollout is the product of a choice that we have made as a state ... the choice to do the hard thing": Chris Alexander, the head of New York's Office of Cannabis Management, defended the sluggish start of New York's legal weed industry as a side-effect of "a good faith effort to create diversity in the industry."
Meanwhile, plenty of New Yorkers are driving stoned.
...and having sex stoned.
People who forgot (or never learned) how to make chit-chat at the office are googling "what to talk about at work."
Congrats to Amy and T.J., the first couple of New York City running, on their Brooklyn Half finishes.
Happy 50th anniversary to famed lesbian cruise line Olivia.
"Do I want to live my life for anyone else’s pleasure or fulfillment other than my own?": Pop star Miley Cyrus says she has no desire to tour again because she's just not into performing for her fans.
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And finally, cold plunge king: