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Zohran Mamdani: “Working class New Yorkers are four times as likely to leave…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:15

And we have to take every single tool that we have to make it more affordable. Because what we've seen is that in that same report, it revealed Working class New Yorkers are four times as likely to leave this city than wealthy New Yorkers. For all of the conversation about a potential exodus as a result of changing fiscal policy, there's a real exodus of working class New Yorkers that has been taking place for years. (07:15–07:20)

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Asserts that working class New Yorkers are leaving the city at a higher rate than wealthy ones.

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