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New york city has a 25billion dollar budget deficit.
Id need to see data on the cost comparison w alternatives.
Public Works is a net-generator of revenue for a municipality. They allow businesses to operate, which increases tax revenue.
The alternative to hiring people to shovel the snow is having business halt and the city taking a massive loss in tax revenue, to say nothing of the social, economic, and public safety benefit.
How much public works? It’s predictable that there’s snow, so you have equipment. Sometimes there’s more do you prepare for more. But it’s expensive equipment that needs to be purchased, maintained, stored and operated. Most of that expense is year round but you see benefits only a few times per year. Do you invest enough money year round to cover a once a year storm? A once every ten years storm? What about a 100 year storm? We have had those recently but that’s a lot of equipment
Meanwhile these shovelers aren’t on payroll most of the year, have no special equipment, don’t need maintenance, etc. I d expect they’d quickly become cheaper