New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani forcefully defended his call for a $30 minimum wage during the final debate of the race Wednesday night, warning that under the status quo, the expensive metropolis is at growing risk of becoming “a museum of where working-class people used to be able to live.”
The inability of many New Yorkers to make a livable wage in the city, Mamdani said, “is pushing them to live in Jersey City, to live in Pennsylvania, to live in Connecticut, because they can’t afford to live in New York City.”
Under Mamdani’s proposal, which would have to be approved by lawmakers, New York City’s wage floor would rise incrementally before reaching $30 an hour by 2030. The minimum wage would then be tied to either cost-of-living increases or worker productivity jumps.
I’ll believe it when it comes into effect. That’s a lofty promise.
It isn’t a promise to raise the minimum wage. The mayor doesn’t have the power to do that. It is a promise to push and lobby towards that goal.
For a supposed democracy, Americans really tend to gravitate to a single source of power (king, dictator) mentality.
As usual ml has a bad take on how America works.
You can rag on .ml all you want, but they’re completely right on both counts in this case.
You’re completely dismissing a valid statement because of where it’s coming from.
So your take is that a mayor has the power to single handedly change the minimum wage? We elect people into a system of supposed checks and balances where the executive branch leads only with the support of the legislative and judicial. We do not elevate rulers. Supposedly.
Back to your ml cave with you
Dont care, ml
That literally is how America works, or is supposed to. We elect people to make these policies and laws on our behalf, or lobby for them if their position doesn’t directly allow them to. Mamdani is not running for emperor, he is running for mayor of NYC. Mayors do not create federal or state law.
If you don’t understand politics, you should educate yourself on the basics before you go off and look like a jackass. There is literally nothing wrong with being silent and humble until you understand a topic well enough to speak on it.
I don’t think you understand if he doesn’t lie he won’t get in so it’s justified for the greater good!
Ron Pearlman voice: Politics. Politics never changes.
Yeah people will cheer this because it’s their team doing it.
I mean, it’s a better promise than the “woman won’t be human beings” rules the other team wants. I’ll cheer for it, I’m just skeptical.
Yeah you’re not wrong there.