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Dow Jones
By Katie Honan
More than three dozen New York City mayoral candidates are vying for one of the toughest jobs in the country: leading the nation's largest city back to pre-pandemic employment levels while trying to find the funding to do so.
In the run-up to the June 22 primary, candidates have been detailing their visions for the city's economic recovery from the Covid-19 crisis, which wiped out nearly 878,000 jobs in the second quarter of 2020, according to the city's Independent Budget Office. Although an estimated 20% of those jobs returned by the third quarter, pre-pandemic levels of employment might not return for years, the IBO says.