"the struggles of parents pushing strollers here in Flatbush, from couples in Astoria who want to stay in Astoria, for New Yorkers in Washington Heights working three jobs to make ends meet and it still isn't enough."
"Governor Hochul and I have made the choice to deliver for working families,"
"We have made the choice to take these steps towards universal child care."
Zohran Mamdani announced a universal child care initiative in New York City with two years of state funding from Governor Kathy Hochul totaling almost five hundred million dollars. The program will offer free care for two-year-olds, providing roughly two thousand seats in high-need neighborhoods in the first year and about ten thousand more in the second year, with expansion to tens of thousands during the mayor's first term. Implementation depends heavily on licensed, small-scale, at-home child-care providers who currently care for many two-year-olds. Those operations are already struggling, so rollout will require recruiting, supporting, and stabilizing the workforce.
Read at The New Yorker
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