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Weekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani

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You Make One Dollar More Than the Median Income?

In the first three years, families with incomes that are just one dollar over a hundred % of the medium income will be eligible for zero subsidies. The threshold has now been moved from what was probably going to be a hundred and 50%. You make one dollar more than that, you lose all your benefits,. To 200 n 50 % of the state medium income, which is pretty high. I think something like maybe five per cent of people make more than that so it doesn't solve the problem entirely, but it solves, you know, i don't 80 90% of the problem, at least in year four," he said.

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