Over twelve years as mayor, Mayor Bloomberg favored individual, often market-based (and occasionally idiosyncratic) experiments to combat specific aspects of economic stagnation for a relative few, while disdaining using the levers of government policymaking to broadly expand economic mobility and lower our staggering cost of living. The result speaks for itself: the City's middle class contracted rather than expanded, and voters chose a new mayor and city council determined to try a different approach.