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t’s not just your old roommate, saddled with loans, who thinks colleges are failing to prepare students for their caree
rs.Top CEOs, including JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, think so too, particularly when it comes to low-income workers. In fact, they’re among the 27 CEOs who formed the New York Jobs CEO Council which, since 2020, has sought to help underprivileged New Yorkers land out-of-reach
corporate jobs.The nonprofit, led by executive director Kiersten Barnet, works with secondary and higher ed schools and member companies on a host of initiatives aimed at placing workers into “family-sustaining” jobs, or those paying