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Zohran Mamdani
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This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von · #687 - Zohran Mamdani
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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. There would be one in each borough, with a 30% discount on the essential items.
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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. That is the income bar he cites for covering care, not a general citywide salary figure.
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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. He says they can do the big things and the little things, including paving 200,000 potholes.
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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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How Will DoorDash Workers Get the Settlement Money?
Sam and DCWP are not going to make those delivery workers jump through a hoop. The money goes to the same email they were registered with DoorDash, as a check or as a direct deposit.
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Why Does Mamdani Say People Play the Lottery?
He says that, in many ways, this is why a lot of people play the lottery. For many, it feels like their only chance, not a side option they can ignore while another path stays open.
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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 million New Yorkers.
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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, or some kind of car accident.
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How Is New York's Snow Removal Budget Set?
Snow removal is budgeted as an average of the recent year's cost. If the city has not had snow for the last few years, it will not have any money really set aside for that snow removal.
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How Does Mamdani Introduce Who He Is?
He says it starts and ends with being a New Yorker. He moved to the city at seven when his dad got a job at Columbia, grew up on the Upper West Side, went to middle school in the neighborhood, and went to high school in the Bronx at Bronx Science.