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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

New York Cities and Equalities have defined the course of this plague.

It's hitting working-class black and immigrant New Yorkers the hardest.

The people who live in the smallest most crowded quarters, who must work to eat, and thus

who must use a subway system abandoned by the sheltering in place middle and upper classes to get to their jobs.

Today's New York is a man-made disaster, crafted amid the fiscal crises of the 1970s by the harsh austerity

and neoliberal model that bankers, corporate elites, and the Ford administration imposed in response.

My guest today is historian Kim Phillips Fine, the author of Fear City, New York's fiscal crisis, and the rise of austerity politics.

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