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.
Truly boggles my mind.
I appreciate you looking out and honestly I’ve been trying to push the boundaries of what you can say online lately and seeing if I get any knocks on the door, although I feel this stuff would only be discovered after the fact, and I actually went postal. Rather than someone coming to check I’m not insane.
At some point though I do believe that violence is the only answer to an oppressive system and I would happily lose my freedom in service to my end goals. But let’s hope it doesn’t come to that and we can spread awareness about more progressive policies.