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

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🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Zohran Mamdani, New York State Assembly Member for District 36, discusses why he and New York cab drivers are undertaking a hunger strike, and how the city’s inaction around the taxi medallion crisis has forced working-class cab drivers into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. Plus, Matt Bruenig joins to discuss the never-ending string of design flaws in the Democrats’ childcare proposals.

Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from October 30, 2021, with Paul Prescod filling in for Nando.

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0:00.0	What is up everyone, you're watching Weekends with Anna Casparian and Paul Prescott.
0:21.3	This is the second week in a row that Nando is off, but don't worry, he'll be back next
0:25.3	week.
0:26.4	He's been doing other programming for Jacobin, which you can check out on Jacobin's YouTube
0:30.7	channel.
0:31.7	I highly recommend it.
0:32.7	An interview with Zizek was done.
0:35.9	I think this week, Jen Pan was also part of it and it was great.
0:39.5	Just watch that this morning.
0:40.5	It's always a fun ride to interview him.
0:43.7	Absolutely, absolutely.
0:45.6	It's funny because I just rewatched his interview with Jordan Peterson and it's a great
0:52.0	interview.
0:53.0	It was a great, great debate, which if you haven't checked it out, definitely watch that.
1:00.0	We've got a great show ahead for you guys today.
1:02.7	We're going to get into a discussion about the initial means testing that was implemented
1:08.9	in the Child Care Subsidy program.
1:13.1	That's part of the budget reconciliation bill.
1:14.9	We'll get to that in just a minute.
1:17.2	I'm doing my decode today, Paul, on child labor because there are some states that are
1:22.2	trying to roll back regulations pertaining to child labor, which I mean, it's America.
1:28.7	I guess this is something that we should be expecting.
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