De Blasio’s program spent $300M to create only 3,000 jobs

De Blasio’s program spent $300M to create only 3,000 jobs:

Mayor Bill de Blasio spent $300 million to create just 3,000 jobs, a top city official admitted Monday.
Testifying at a City Council hearing, James Patchett, president of the city’s Economic Development Corp., defended the slow progress of the mayor’s $1.35 billion “New York Works” program, launched in 2017.