The blizzard in New York is turning out to be a bigger problem than expected. Still, despite this winter’s harshness, emergency snow shovelers are in short supply, so much so that Mayor Zohran Mamdani has increased the pay by more than 30 percent, raising the previous $19/hour rate to now $30/hour. Apparently, not many people showed up for the previous job, leading to further criticism of New York‘s mayor.
Mamdani himself announced the higher emergency job pay in a press conference on February 23. According to the New York Mayor, there were hundreds of snow shovelers on the job already, and many of them are hard at work, around “1,800 New Yorkers per shift.” Mamdani did add that his administration still “increased pay to $30 per hour,” supposedly due to the “historic nature of this blizzard.” The previous pay was reportedly around $19 per hour.
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