Zohran Mamdani: “500,000 kids go to sleep hungry every night [in New York…”

“Here in New York City, wealthiest city and the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one in four are in poverty. 500,000 kids go to sleep hungry every night [in New York City]. It's untenable to live with this kind of a divide. We have to actually have a politics that puts working people first.” (09:28–09:32)

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