Zohran Mamdani: “One in four New Yorkers being in poverty.”

“It sounds like what you're doing differently is you're being competent or, you know, ruthlessly pursuing those goals and chipping away at them. So why take that on? One in four New Yorkers being in poverty. we have to also ask ourselves about if it's important to change the framework with which, what we determine success to be.” (13:07–13:10)

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