[Just The News] Mamdani on Monday released the city's first-ever racial equity plan, which links his administration's "affordability" agenda with social justice.
The U.S. Department of Justice plans to review a "racial equity" plan unveiled by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday, with a top federal prosecutor suggesting that the "fishy" plan could run afoul of federal anti-discrimination laws.
Mamdani on Monday released the city's first-ever racial equity plan, which links his administration's "affordability" agenda with social justice after a related report claimed that disinvestment, exclusion from homeownership, unequal access to health care and employment have disproportionately impacted "black and brown" New Yorkers.
"Together, these reports establish a framework for how our city will both measure affordability and plan for the future," Mamdani said. "These reports make one thing clear: we cannot tackle systemic racial inequity without confronting the affordability crisis head-on, and we cannot solve the cost-of-living crisis without dismantling systemic racial inequity."
The True Cost of Living Measure, one of the reports released Monday, shows that nearly two-thirds of Big Apple residents don't earn enough income to cover basic expenses. Nearly 62% of New Yorkers are unable to meet basic living expenses, the report found. The average family needs about $40,000 more per year to make ends meet, according to the report's authors.
[RedState] New poll numbers released Monday show Virginia voters might be having one heckuva a case of buyer's remorse after electing Democrat Abigail Spanberger as their new governor last November. Not even three months into her administration, the Washington Post-Schar School poll found Spanberger's approval rate amongst voters sits at just 47 percent, with 46 percent disapproving of her performance thus far.
Those numbers really set her apart from her predecessors ... and not in a good way. Her +1 net approval is dwarfed by the numbers garnered by the Republicans and Democrats who came before her, indicating that voters may finally be realizing that Abigail Spanberger is no moderate, despite running as one.
WaPo's analysis of the numbers is pretty stark (emphasis mine):
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@4 Don't blame the whole state Ed, it was the 2 or 3 blue counties bordering DC and Maryland in the north that determined the election, VA is a lot like CA and NY where a handful of overpopulated blue counties determines who gets elected.
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