Tech Jobs Are Booming in Brooklyn, But Is the Workforce Reflective of the Borough?

[camaro69]

Originally Posted by Aeran

Good! I hope it works out.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs...cIGAvTQsq39DLw

Tech startup Propel designed a free app that helps people navigate public assistance programs. Founder Jimmy Chen created the business nearly six years ago with help from the Robin Hood Foundation, the city's largest poverty-fighting organization. He decided to base it in Brooklyn.

"There are 40 million Americans who are struggling financially and are using programs like the food stamp program,” Chen told NY1. “And we want our company to look like the people who are using our products."

How is that not racist?

If the product was used 99% by one group, then in their eyes 99% of the employees should be of the same.

Bull and pure racist.

[IForgotMyOldAccount]

isnt like 50% Bed Stuy like white now?

I'd say it is Gentrification works /s

[Montezia]

That app seems completely unnecessary. It insults the intelligence of people seeking out PA. I've been to the PA office and everything seems very straightforward. There are a ton of brochures and papers telling you how to get PA. Heck government assistance can be found on Google.

Also the company's mission statement is full of crap. The same clients they claim to be helping are the same ones being pushed out.

[speediestevie]

Originally Posted by IForgotMyOldAccount

isnt like 50% Bed Stuy like white now?

I'd say it is Gentrification works /s

I have absolutely no idea what the above post means or if it's written in English, but here is city-data ( the same site we are on) info about Bed Stuy:


https://www.city-data.com/neighborho...ooklyn-NY.html