Zohran Mamdani: “In 2025, we had more than 48,000 jobs in the New York City…”

“And I'll just tell you, please, allow me. What we've seen is in the first five months of this year, we had an addition of more than 21,000 jobs. What we saw In 2025, we had more than 48,000 jobs in the New York City metro area of any metro area in the country, it's the fastest growing one. And so we see that we're headed in the right direction. I mean, good to note that the city's recent job numbers aren't particularly strong. The unemployment rate is comparatively high.” (39:38–39:49)

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