Michael Bloomberg's Efforts

Mayor Bloomberg won control of New York City’s broken public school system and transformed it by raising standards, promoting innovation, and holding schools accountable for successes. He guided the city through financial crises and spurred economic growth and job creation by strengthening key industries, including new media, film and television, bio-science, technology, and higher education.

His social efforts included: restrictions to smoking, encouragements of bicycle use, and pedestrian access. Bloomberg helped avoided level of job losses that many experts had forecasted through The Mayor’s Five Borough Economic Opportunity Plan, and launched programs that encouraged entrepreneurship, combatted poverty, and helped people acquire the skills they needed to build careers. His belief that America’s mayors and business leaders can help effect change in Washington has led him to launch coalitions to combat illegal guns, reform immigration, and invest in infrastructures.