Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.
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#Ask the Mayor: Health Care for All New York, Paid Vacation for Private Sector Workers
New York City Mayor,Bill de Blasio, takes calls from listeners and discusses his progressive proposals in his State of the City speech.
@BrianLehrer Rationale for new plan for East River Park resiliency redesign. Why close the entire park for 3 years, which is never, ever 3 years - probably more like 5-6 years. #AskTheMayor
— Stanley Zucker (@stanleyzucker17) January 11, 2019Considering all the Mayor @NYCMayor has been offering individual employees, can you ask him what he's offering small business? He seems to be adding more and more constraints making it harder to survive and thrive
— Ricardo Sanchez (@RickSanchezNYC) January 11, 2019“Right now my first concern is for the huge number of NYers who don’t get any break at all.” @NYCMayor asked on @BrianLehrer by a caller if the high cost of commercial rent and more paid leave requirement just adds more burden to small biz owners.
— katie honan (@katie_honan) January 11, 2019@BrianLehrer Big fan of the Mayor's proposals but he talks only about workers' rights. More and more of us are free agents, freelancers, entrepreneurs. Who's going to help us with healthcare, IRAs, vacations? How will these benefits come to us if we are our own employers?
— Craig Bromberg (@craigbromberg) January 11, 2019