On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced his plan to roll out the "Initial building blocks" to restart New York City's economy.
In his first inaugural address on the first day of 2014, de Blasio invoked the spirit of "Franklin Roosevelt and Frances Perkins," along with "Fiorello LaGuardia, who enacted the New Deal here on the city level, battled the excesses of Wall Street, and championed a progressive income tax." The new mayor pledged his commitment to pursue higher taxes on the highest-earning New Yorkers and condemned those "On the far right" who "Preach the virtue of trickle-down economics."
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia, and all the other great leaders in the New Deal, they did not say, we just want to go back to that horribly unequal, volatile, unfair world of 1929," de Blasio said.
New York State and City spend tens of billions of dollars providing health-care access to poor people, with special attention to blacks and Latinos, such that the state has one of the lowest rates of uninsured people in the nation-and on an income-adjusted basis, surely the lowest.
The uninsured rate among black New Yorkers is only slightly higher than the white rate; Latino New Yorkers, including many illegal aliens, have much higher uninsured rates but a slightly lower death rate.
Meantime, Asians in New York City, with higher poverty rates than any other group, show the lowest incidence of Covid-19 deaths, by a significant margin.
Presiding over a city spiraling into crisis, Mayor de Blasio continues to sound the one note he knows how to play-about unfairness and inequality-but his instrument is out of tune.
https://www.city-journal.org/covid-de-blasio-restarting-nyc-economy
In his first inaugural address on the first day of 2014, de Blasio invoked the spirit of "Franklin Roosevelt and Frances Perkins," along with "Fiorello LaGuardia, who enacted the New Deal here on the city level, battled the excesses of Wall Street, and championed a progressive income tax." The new mayor pledged his commitment to pursue higher taxes on the highest-earning New Yorkers and condemned those "On the far right" who "Preach the virtue of trickle-down economics."
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia, and all the other great leaders in the New Deal, they did not say, we just want to go back to that horribly unequal, volatile, unfair world of 1929," de Blasio said.
New York State and City spend tens of billions of dollars providing health-care access to poor people, with special attention to blacks and Latinos, such that the state has one of the lowest rates of uninsured people in the nation-and on an income-adjusted basis, surely the lowest.
The uninsured rate among black New Yorkers is only slightly higher than the white rate; Latino New Yorkers, including many illegal aliens, have much higher uninsured rates but a slightly lower death rate.
Meantime, Asians in New York City, with higher poverty rates than any other group, show the lowest incidence of Covid-19 deaths, by a significant margin.
Presiding over a city spiraling into crisis, Mayor de Blasio continues to sound the one note he knows how to play-about unfairness and inequality-but his instrument is out of tune.
https://www.city-journal.org/covid-de-blasio-restarting-nyc-economy
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