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Michael Blake: “We have allowed messaging to confuse us from the facts. Poor…”

Featuring: Michael Blake, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House New York, District 15

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New York City Mayoral Candidate Michael Blake Discusses Campaign Vision and Policies

Published | Video Starts at 15:31

Why are you trying to subsidize the rich and gentrify this neighborhood? And because we have allowed. And this actually goes back to the early point about Kairos Democracy Project, right. We have allowed messaging to confuse us from the facts. Poor is something that someone feels that's not connected to a number. Right. Poverty is that metric. And what is happening right now is that you have individuals that are effectively just poor enough being seen as low income, getting all the access. (15:31–15:44)

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Asserts that public messaging has confused the distinction between being poor and poverty as a metric.

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