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To Day's New York Is Man Made Disaster

Author Kim phillips fine looks at new york's fiscal crisis and the rise of austerity politics. She first brings to life the city that came before the crisis, a social democratic aspiration s where militant public sector unions fought to build a place with free higher education for all. In the 19 seventiesNew York was an epi centre of an economic crisis that would remake the entire domestic and global political economy to serve the rich an capital. To day, covid is disproportionately killing the very same working class people that neo liberal new york has long exposed to sickness, destitution and death. It is killing the very working class people who are keeping new york from collapsing entirely under the

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