Brian Lera on WNYC.

Now we continue our 30 issues and 30 days election series.

It's day 27 and issue 27 jobs and wages in the New York City mayoral race.

Both Andrew Cuomo and Zeranamandani have proposed raising the minimum wage.

It's currently $16.50 an hour in New York City and will rise to $17 an hour in January.

Cuomo is proposing a $20 minimum wage for the city by 2027. Here he is at a campaign stop in May.

$20. That is the fair wage, and that's what we want, and that's what we're going to get past.

Momdani is proposing a $30 an hour minimum wage by 2030.

He was asked about that by a Channel 7, WABC reporter on the same day as that Cuomo clip.

You think $30 an hour is maybe too much for somebody who's scooping up french fries?

No, because when you look at the statistics of what is a living wage in New York City today,

it already is close to $30 an hour.

So the minimum wage is one issue. Now we'll play clips of Mamdani, Cuomo, and Curtis Lewa

from the Crane's New York Business Candidates Forum earlier this month. Then we'll talk to Crane's

politics reporter Nick Garber. We'll start with Cuomo at the

Crane's business forum. Each of these clips is going to be about a minute and a half. You will hear

he emphasizes companies choosing to leave the state as he answers the moderator's question at the

event. The financial sector, 20% of New York City's economy, is shrinking here while growing in Texas

and Florida.

How would you keep jobs and growth in New York?

Oh, that's an easy one.

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