New Report Says Mayor De Blasio Has Failed To Keep Campaign Promise To Fix Income Inequality

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A damning new report finds the needle hasn’t budged on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s top campaign promise. The entire de Blasio family joyfully did the “smackdown” dance on the night de Blasio became mayor, a symbol that the new guy taking the helm intended to keep his campaign promise to smack down income inequality and end the tale of two cities. But nearly six years into his tenure and after increasing spending by more than $20 billion he is now faced with, “an inconvenient truth,” Alex Armlovich of the Manhattan Institute told CBS2’s Marcia Kramer on Wednesday. The disparity between the rich and the poor has barely budged, according to Armlovich’s new report. “A lot of New Yorkers would have liked to see more progress on housing, on transportation, and, especially, for the poorest New Yorkers in the city, NYCHA is in an unbelievable crisis,” Armlovich said. FLASHBACK: De Blasio Uses New Census Data To Back Up “Tale Of Two Cities” Platform Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about NYCHA on Nov. 19, 2018. (credit: CBS2) But this is not a hit job by a conservative think tank. The Manhattan Institute used census data to find something called… Read full this story

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