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Brad Lander's Announcement of Good Jobs Plan and Fundraising Milestone in NYC Mayoral Race

Published May 20, 2025 | Video Starts at 15:50

One more thing out today. 48% down in favor of congestion pricing. 38% of Valley of Death. Thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, Congestion pricing is working and people can see it with their eyes track congestion is down. Traffic speeds to travel into the city are up. 12% more people on the buses. 8% more people on the subways. Buses are moving faster. (15:50–15:57)

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“Only a shocking 1/3 of New Yorkers have jobs that meet the standard that we set for a good job, for a quality job.”
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“Only 12% of working high school grads who don't have a degree higher than high school have a job that meets all those criteria.”
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“The city lost more than 76,000 middle income jobs from 2019 to 2023.”
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“That's $15 billion to New York City that we got because we implemented [congestion pricing].”
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“12% more people on the buses.”
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“8% more people on the subways.”
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“45% fewer complaints about noise from traffic in the congestion zone since congestion pricing went into effect.”
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“My campaign has raised over $8.3 million and officially hit the spending cap for the mayor's race.”
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“This means we've raised the maximum that you're allowed to spend under New York City's best in the nation public finance system.”
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“I'm the second campaign to hit the max spending threshold.”
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“There'll only be three campaigns, one with a super PAC rather than grassroots dollars, and two, with campaign finance, grassroots dollars…”
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“Every recent public poll, including the new Marist poll, shows that our campaign is one of the three that makes it to the final rounds of…”
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“Two thirds of working New Yorkers have a job that doesn't pay a living wage, provide health care, employ them year round and have decent…”
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“Job quality was getting better. It had risen from 30% in 2017 up to 35%. But unfortunately, the pandemic set us back and we've really…”
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“I'm announcing a good jobs plan. Plan to Address New York's good jobs crisis and confront the challenges that that report reveals.”
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“I'll grow the industries that create good jobs we identified in the report.”
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“The sectors in which people are least likely to have good jobs are ones that are essential for New Yorkers.”
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“My plan lays out an effort to raise job standards and quality for human service workers, especially those who are funded by city contracts.”
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“I've put out a plan to create a Mayor's Office of Workers Rights that would help protect people from being fired for no reason.”
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“I'll strengthen career connected education and training programs by launching FutureWorks NYC, a program to coordinate the city's now…”
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“Expand apprenticeships that come out of high schools like the great Steam center that's in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.”
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“We've got 20,000 city vacancies.”
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“We also, you know, so we've hit the cap, the 8.3 million you can spend in this race.”
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“We were awarded a grant...from the federal government, the Inflation Reduction Act.”
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“Traffic speeds to travel into the city are up.”
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“Buses are moving faster.”
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“My office is actually working with cacf, Chinese American Children and Families on an anti Asian hate curriculum.”
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