Journalist Matthew Yglesias, a Vox co-founder and editor of the newsletter Slow Boring, joined Errol Louis to discuss different ideas to help solve New York City’s budget hole and economic crisis. That includes potential mayoral candidate Andrew Yang’s idea of universal basic income, the debate over raising taxes on wealthy New Yorkers and the fight over development projects. He also talked about his decision to launch his own newsletter on Substack and weighed in on the future of media and journalism, as local news continues to take hits all over the nation.
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