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Zohran Mamdani: “New Yorkers, when they're choosing to start a family…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:39

And we know that child care is one part of an affordability agenda. It's not the. The beginning and the end of all the work, but it's a major part because as we said right now, New Yorkers, when they're choosing to start a family, they're having to make the choice between doing that and staying in the city because of how expensive we've made it. And if you don't have that, if you don't have the money to be able to do that, then you're not going to be a job, have a job. (04:39–04:47)

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Asserts that the cost of living in New York City forces families to choose between starting a family and staying in the city.

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