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What Were Nurses Asking for on the Picket Line?

On the picket line, the nurses were asking for safe staffing. They wanted better ratios between nurses and patients so they could actually take care of the patients they were assigned.

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#687 - Zohran Mamdani ·

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

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  1. How Does Mamdani Introduce Who He Is?He says it starts and ends with being a New Yorker.
  2. How Is New York's Snow Removal Budget Set?Snow removal is budgeted as an average of the recent year's cost.
  3. What Knocked Middle-class Homeowners Off Their Payments?People with a union job and a home they owned could be thrown off their payments by one emergency: a medical visit they had not planned for, a family illness…
  4. What Rent Decision Covers More Than Two Million New Yorkers?The Independent Rent Guidelines Board came out and said that for the next year and the year after that, there would be no rent increase for more than two…
  5. Why Does Mamdani Say People Play the Lottery?He says that, in many ways, this is why a lot of people play the lottery.
  6. How Will DoorDash Workers Get the Settlement Money?Sam and DCWP are not going to make those delivery workers jump through a hoop.
  7. What Does Mamdani Say Nine Months in Office Delivered?In nine months they started universal childcare, and 2,000 families are now saving 20K they would otherwise have spent.
  8. How Much Must a Family of Three Earn for Childcare?A study found that a family of three had to make $330,000 a year to afford childcare.
  9. What Is the Plan for City-run Grocery Stores?They are trying to build five city-run grocery stores because grocery costs have gone up 30% since the pandemic.

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