Zohran Mamdani: “New Yorkers are spending $22,500 a year on childcare…”

“So we spent that meeting, which was an incredibly productive one, on the agenda itself. The outcomes of that agenda. Now, as you said, one of them is universal childcare, because New Yorkers are spending $22,500 a year on childcare currently for one child. The other is fast and free buses. And then the other we've talked about is freezing the rent for rent stabilized tenants. Now, freezing the rent is something that can be done without Albany's assistance.” (15:31–15:39)

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