We need a “people-driven” economic development program that creates access to good jobs for the people who need them most. New York City must safeguard taxpayer dollars and transform its relationship with wealthy corporations by establishing formal mechanisms to ensure corporate accountability, community oversight, and transparency. The Mayor can combat income inequality by investing in training, education, and union apprenticeship programs that lead to good paying, permanent jobs with a real pathway to the middle class for New York’s low-income communities of color that are struggling with the highest rates of unemployment.