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The Breakfast Club

INTERVIEW: Commissioner Louis Molina On Helping New Yorkers Find Jobs, The Evolution Of The City + More

The Breakfast Club

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Comedy

4.414.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Today on The Breakfast Club, Commissioner Louis Molina On Helping New Yorkers Find Jobs, The Evolution Of The City. Listen For More!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human. woke up, woke up, wake you up. Program your alarm to power 105.1 on IHartRadio. Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Shalameen de Guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Commissioner Louis Molina. How are you feeling, man? Great. always great to be here.

0:23.7

Now you're launching a club. We got a special guest in the building. Yes, indeed. We have Commissioner Lewis Molina.

0:21.0

How are you feeling, man? Great. Always great to be here. Now, you're launching a new weekly

0:25.6

initiative to help New Yorkers find jobs. Absolutely. Let's break that down. Yeah, it's going

0:30.1

with us, Power 105.1. Of course, yeah, but let them break it down. Yeah, well, when you're in the

0:33.5

number one city in the world and you have job opportunities. You've got to come to the number one show to let people know what's going on, right?

0:39.5

So that's a fact. Deliveringfor you.noyc. And we also have a number, 212, 3,86, 5,000. So we have a number, thousands of job opportunities with the city. Some are entry level, some are for mid-career professionals. but we have somebody for,

0:54.1

we have a job for anyone

0:55.0

that wants to bring their talents to the city

0:56.7

and be part of helping our city evolve and support the community. I was just going to ask that. So these are careers, not just seasonal jobs, right? So not just for the holidays. This is somebody, someone could get into and work for a couple of years, get benefits, and take care of their family long time. Absolutely. So some of the jobs at entry level and to the begin your career track to do that, for example, like an assistant school safety agent with the NYPD or working as a taxi limousine commission inspector. And for college graduates, we have to hire a thousand school teachers to deal with class size. We also are looking for school nurses.

1:29.3

So there's a number of jobs that are available if you're just starting out in your career for a career progression.

1:34.3

If you're a mid-career professional, we have those opportunities too.

1:37.3

Can you explain while working for the government is such a strong option right now?

1:41.3

So I think as we've seen as of late, when we look at local municipal government,

1:45.7

they provide a level of career stability that you may not get in the private sector.

1:51.4

We've read a lot of challenges in the city of New York over the last decade, as many,

1:55.8

as you know and your listeners know, but we haven't had a layoff, right?

1:59.8

And I think that that's important. At the same time,

2:02.2

you have options. You can grow in a career within the same city agency. So we have thousands of

2:07.0

city workers that start off in an agency, and 25, 30 years later, they retire from the same agencies.

2:12.7

Myself, I had the honor of working at five different city agencies, right? So you can also

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