Episode
May 22: Minimum Wage, Libraries, Salt Sugar Fat,
In this edition, MetroFocus reprises its reporting from March on the debate over raising the minimum wage. Rick Karr reports from the Bronx on one woman’s life on a low wage in America’s most expensive city. An interview with CUNY professor, Stephanie Luce. The Center for an Urban Future’s David Giles talks to Pi Roman about the city's libraries.
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