Zohran Mamdani: “Drivers are either forced to stay home, stay healthy, but…”

“And the inability to have that long term sense of stability, the inability to really have a large scale social safety net has meant that Drivers are either forced to stay home, stay healthy, but live in a very precarious position... or go out, risk their lives. rent or next pay for their food, for their family or their medicines, or go out, risk their lives and that of others around them in order to earn.” (02:06–02:23)

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