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On this episode of City Works, host Laura Flanders speaks to New York City street vendor advocates about recent landmark legislation passed by the City Council that will bring thousands more vendors into compliance and provide them with support and training. Council Member Amanda Farías of District 18 in the Bronx, Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, Deputy Director of the Street Vendor Project, and Guadalupe Sosa, a second-generation street vendor in New York City, talk to Laura about the challenges in getting the legislation passed, and how it will help the day-to-day lives of street vendors going forward.

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