The Cost of Stopping: Why Some NYC Yellow Cab Drivers Work Through Illness

After at least four yellow cab drivers died while working in New York City this summer, WNYC reporter Ramsey Khalife examines the financial pressures that can keep drivers behind the wheel even when they are sick. 

Photo: Ramsey Khalifeh - WNYC/Gothamist
 

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