Zohran Mamdani rode to victory as New York City's mayor in part due to his audacious campaign promises around freezing the rent and offering free bus service to Big Apple residents. But perhaps no campaign promise of Mamdani's was as bold as his "$30 by '30" plan, which called for increasing the city's minimum wage to $30 by 2030.
Now that Mamdani is in office, New York City Council members have introduced a bill to turn $30 by '30 from a catchy campaign slogan into an economic reality.
