{"id":606778,"date":"2021-07-30T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606778"},"modified":"2021-07-30T11:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:36:29","slug":"gov-andrew-cuomo-pleads-with-citizens-to-return-to-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-andrew-cuomo-pleads-with-citizens-to-return-to-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Andrew Cuomo Pleads With Citizens To Return To New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-andrew-cuomo-pleads-with-citizens-to-return-to-new-york-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606778&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-1227753247.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo begged citizens to return to New York City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cuomo reportedly told attendees of a virtual conference call for the Association for a Better New York that the city would need residents who fled the city \u2014 especially those who completed remote work elsewhere \u2014 to promptly return.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRemember, we have to get people back and we have to get people back in volume,\u201d said Cuomo as quoted by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/cuomo-begs-businesses-nyc-return-devastating-shutdown\"><span>Fox Business<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cIf you were to see a 15% decline of people coming back to New York City, that would have a devastating impact on the commercial market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe need people coming back,\u201d he added. \u201cSay to your workforce, \u2018By Labor Day, everyone is back in the office.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe need that volume to support the restaurants and the shops, the services,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about your business. It\u2019s about all the spinoff effect economic activity that your workers bring to the surrounding community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Leaders in the state of New York \u2014 and New York City in particular \u2014 enforced some of the most aggressive COVID-19 lockdown measures in the United States. As a result, New York is currently the lowest-ranked state for post-recession economic recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\/us-economic-recovery-coronavirus\"><span>Back-to-Normal Index<\/span><\/a><span> \u2014 a project of Moody\u2019s Analytics and CNN Business that monitors economic recovery from the lockdown-induced recession \u2014 New York is only operating at 81% of its pre-recession strength. Other states with lackluster economic recoveries include Illinois (82%), California (87%), Oregon (87%), and New Mexico (86%).&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CNN Business <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cuomos-new-york-has-the-worst-economic-rebound-in-the-nation-slowing-other-states-recoveries\"><span>explained<\/span><\/a><span> earlier this month that New York\u2019s slow economic recovery is dampening other states\u2019 growth:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><i><span>In 2019, before Covid hit, New York had the third-strongest economy among US states, lagging only Texas and California. The state\u2019s gross domestic product \u2014 the broadest measure of economic activity \u2014 was nearly $1.8 trillion, on par with the GDP of Italy. More than $1 trillion of that came from economic activity in New York City. The state contributed more than 8% to America\u2019s overall GDP that year.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In 2020, New York\u2019s GDP dropped to $1.7 trillion. That might not sound like a big difference, but we\u2019re dealing in trillions of dollars here. When states that are economic powerhouses underperform, it\u2019s not great for the recovery of the entire nation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a fellow Democrat, recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-city-mayor-to-mandate-covid-19-vaccinations-for-all-public-hospital-workers\"><span>mandated<\/span><\/a><span> that all employees of public hospitals and health clinics receive the COVID-19 inoculations or undergo mandatory testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is literally a matter of life and death,\u201d said de Blasio. \u201cAt a certain point, personal responsibility actually matters.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo, we\u2019ve been really nice, really communicative, really respectful,\u201d he added. \u201cCome on people, it\u2019s time to step forward \u2014 and we\u2019re going to make that real clear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo begged citizens to return to New York City.Cuomo reportedly told attendees of a virtual conference call for the Association for a Better New York &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}