De Blasio lays out economic vision in speech before major business group
‘It’s not class warfare ---it’s arithmetic’
On Friday, New York City mayoral frontrunner Bill de Blasio described his vision to leverage the city’s strengths to tackle income inequality and end its “Tale of Two Cities,” at a speech before the influential Association for a Better New York.
Last year before the same group, de Blasio had proposed a modest tax on those earning more than a half-million dollars a year to fund pre-K and afterschool programs. While the proposal was not met with much enthusiasm last year, de Blasio’s popularity has skyrocketed and his ideas received a warmer welcome this year.
On Friday, De Blasio reiterated the need for pre-K and afterschool programs, and went on to sketch out his overall blueprint to beef up the city’s economy and tackle the city’s “crisis of affordability.”