Above: Mayor Bloomberg speaks (Ed Reed). Below: Gibbs & Doar on panel

Data-driven Center for Economic Opportunity paves way for workforce development vision in Career Pathways

On July 14, former Bloomberg Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs and Robert Doar, former commissioner of anti-poverty efforts, participated in a panel discussion in Washington, D.C., fielding questions

Mayor de Blasio makes appointments, 2014 (photo: Ed Reed, Mayor's Office)

Deliberative. Hands-on. Micro-manager. Terms used by a variety of people to describe Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has also described himself as such. De Blasio is known to put considerable thought before action, demand regular reports from his functionaries, and go through multiple levels of input before arriving at policy decisions.

While de Blasio has been known for years as especially deliberative, sometimes to the point of