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Roberta Reardon addressed the Rockefeller Institute of Government earlier this week and stated that the state of labor in New York State is "great" and that NYS is "in a very, very good place and the future is very bright. Her remarks covered the changing employment landscape in New York over the past 10 years and the trends and forces shaping its future --- from the fight for a $15 minimum wage to the middle-skills gap and the 'green collar' economy. Some points from her remarks included: • The state has added about 1 million private sector jobs since 2010, with a total of about 8 million today. She credited much of that to the work of Regional Economic Development Councils. • In New York, there are 4.5 million middle-skills jobs, according to a study by the National Skills Coalition, but only 3.4 million workers trained to do them. Click here to watch the full video of her address. (the video will open in YouTube.)