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A Pay Raise for Taxi and For-Hire Vehicle Drivers
After a tough year for cabbies and for-hire vehicle drivers, with economic troubles and driver suicides, Meera Joshi, chair and commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, talks about new rules that the TLC says will raise the pay of for-hire vehicle drivers, and that will benefit some yellow-cab drivers.