Zohran Mamdani: “One in four New Yorkers are still living in poverty.”

“As we stand here in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, as we stand here by Wall street when last year they had more than $40 billion in bonuses, we ask ourselves, how is it that One in four New Yorkers are still living in poverty. We ask ourselves, how is it that we have still yet to answer the question that Dr. King posed all those decades ago?” (07:42–07:46)

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