Zohran Mamdani: “We have a shortfall of vacancies of about 17,000 people in…”

“But what is so exciting is that for a long time in New York City, we've been told that the reason, one of the reasons We have a shortfall of vacancies of about 17,000 people in our workforce. is because of a lack of interest. And what we're seeing is that is patently not the case anymore. We have more than 70,000, as you've said.” (23:06–23:12)

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