Zohran Mamdani: “We have more than 70,000 [applicants], as you've said.”

“… 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 [applicants], as you've said. And it's also an applicant pool whose average age is 28 years old. And we have already been looking into this portal to look for specific, specific positions within the team that we're building right now.” (18:17–23:19)

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