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Zohran Mamdani: “The reason that we put forward $30 by 2030 is that that's…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 1:25:52

So this would be something where the city would have to start doing so as well. Because any law that we want New Yorkers to follow, the city should be following it itself. And The reason that we put forward $30 by 2030 is that that's the minimum that a New Yorker needs to be paid to be able to afford to live in this city. And what we are looking at right now is the possibility of the place that we know and love becoming a museum of where working class people used to be. (1:25:52–1:26:02)

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Asserts that $30 per hour is the minimum wage needed to afford living in New York City.

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