NYC’s ‘economic resilience’ masks a deeper crisis involving fleeing residents and taxable income: new report

New York City is still adding jobs overall, Wall Street remains a source of strength and the city’s economy grew faster than the nation’s in 2024.

But a new Citizens Budget Commission analysis argues that those headline signs of resilience are masking something more troubling: the city is losing residents and taxable income, public school enrollment is down, housing costs keep climbing and the city’s fiscal cushion remains thin.