Jessica Ramos: “CUNY and union jobs are the best vehicles to bring people…”

“As a mother, it seems to me that there is a big war on children and a big war on education happening at City hall. And it really is to everybody's detriment because we not only well know that CUNY and union jobs are the best vehicles to bring people into the middle class. and probably the state in our country with the greatest income inequality, but because we actually need good jobs, we actually have a bunch of asylum seeking academics selling are EPAs on Roosevelt Avenue this morning.” (00:48–00:56)

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