10 hours ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
The Young College Grads Who Propelled Mamdani to Victory in New York
They came to New York looking to make it. Instead, they're struggling to keep up with the city's high costs, and having an even harder time seeing a future in the city.
Zohran Mamdani, New York's unlikely new Democratic candidate for mayor, ran on a socialist platform promising to uplift New Yorkers with rent freezes, city-owned grocery stores, and free bus rides. He was propelled to the Democratic primary in a stunning upset by a group of economic rebels just as unlikely: young, educated New Yorkers, many of them white.
