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Brad Lander: “Manage the pension funds. That's $275 billion.”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander Discusses Immigration, Income Disparity, and Coalition Building on The Breakfast Club

Published | Video Starts at 01:24

What exactly do you do as comptroller? Yeah, Comptroller is both Chief financial Officer and Chief Accountability Officer. So as financial officer, Manage the pension funds. That's $275 billion. That's the retirement security of our teachers and school crossing guards and public hospital nurses and firefighters. (01:24–01:28)

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Asserts that the pension funds managed by the Comptroller's office total $275 billion.

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