Weekends: Why Is NYC Letting Taxi Drivers Starve? w/ Zohran Mamdani
Jacobin Radio
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Taxi Drivers in New York City
A taxi driver typically works six days a week. The act of being on the road for that long, every day, it is also a it has consequences for your physical health. There are no bathrooms that these drivers can find to use. And what is so infuriating about this struggle is that our politicians traffic in the symbolism of taxis and the symbolism of emigrants. But when it comes to the substance of it, these men are being told to suffer on the margins and suffer out of view and in the outer burrows," she said.
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