The coronavirus pandemic has compelled us to take stock of the racial and socioeconomic inequities that have burdened our city's more than five million New Yorkers of color for generations. These obstacles to their upward mobility exist not only in health care, education, and housing but within our own municipal workforce.
The most glaring among them happens to also be one of particularly cruel irony given COVID-19's onslaught on the city's 9-1-1 system: the unequal pay received by emergency medical technicians and paramedics at FDNY EMS.
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