Zohran Mamdani: “Two dozen tech companies in our city have laid off workers…”

“And I know that as I speak, this is a challenging time for the private sector. We added fewer than 1,000 private sector jobs in the first half of this year. Two dozen tech companies in our city have laid off workers this year. part of a national trend which has seen 150,000 tech jobs cut across 549 companies just last year alone.” (07:11–07:16)

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