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Zohran Mamdani: “Delivering universal childcare would also cost less than the…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Zohran Mamdani Discusses New York City Mayoral Race and Progressive Policies at Zateo Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 18:17

And ultimately, these questions are only raised when you're talking about making buses free, which would cost less than what I just cited, or Delivering universal childcare would also cost less than the economic cost we're seeing of the absence of that, which is more than $20 billion just a few years ago. So it is a political choice as to what we focus on. There are good faith questions as to how we pay for these things. (18:17–18:33)

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Asserts that universal childcare would cost less than the $20 billion economic cost of its absence.

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