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“My plan would use a $500 million investment from our city’s pension funds—a smart, long-term real estate investment—to finance the expansion of child care facilities across the five boroughs.”

ByJustin Brannan 0Comments

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Dec 2024

Economy Education Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion

Opinion: We Need to Make it Easier to Open a Day Care in NYC

“There are many factors at play, including the unfavorable economics of running a child care business, keeping many potential providers from opening or expanding.”

ByMaya Kurien

ByGrace Rauh 1Comment

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Oct 2024

Education Government Opinion Politics

Opinion: How the Mayor’s Indictment Could Impact NYC Child Care Services

“We already experienced a retrenchment of the city’s commitment to Universal Pre-K and Universal 3K programs. Parents can’t afford to lose more ground.”

ByRobert Cordero 0Comments

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Jun 2024

Government Housing and Homelessness Immigration Justice Labor Opinion Politics

Opinion: NYC’s Budget Must Include Immigrants for the Success of Our City

“With legal services to obtain work authorizations, language access so they can navigate our government bureaucracy, childcare so they can go to work, and education so their kids can get…

ByMurad Awawdeh 1Comment

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May 2024

Economy Education Government Opinion

Opinion: NYC Can Give the Perfect Gift This Mother’s Day—Investing in Universal Child Care

“It is easy to see how mothers are affected by the prohibitively expensive costs of child care, but perhaps less so to understand it as a communal crisis.”

ByTalya Wolf 0Comments

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Jan 2024

Labor

Opinion: ‘Women Forward NYC’ Can’t Succeed While the Mayor Cuts Child Care

There is no equality without affordable child care. Yet despite claiming to stand up for women, since entering office, the mayor has made cut after cut to pre-K and 3-K…

ByRebecca Bailin 0Comments

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Jun 2023

Economy Education Government Housing and Homelessness

Subsidized Child Care Pilot for Undocumented Families Renewed in City Budget Deal

The city pilot program called Promise NYC, which covered up to $700 a week in child care to undocumented children with low-income parents during the second half of 2023, will…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

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May 2023

Education Government Health Opinion

Opinion: Improving Mental Health Outcomes in NYC Begins at Birth

“To most effectively and efficiently address New York City’s mental health challenges, we must focus on our youngest residents and their caregivers.”

ByEvelyn Blanck

ByAndrew Cleek 0Comments

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Apr 2023

Government Justice Resources

Opinion: This Child Abuse Prevention Month, How to Support a Family Before Challenges Arise

“We can meaningfully change the trajectory of families’ lives by partnering with communities to make sure there is easy access to the support and resources families need to thrive.”

ByJacqueline Martin 0Comments

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Apr 2023

Education Government Housing and Homelessness

With City Child Care Program to End in June, Asylum-Seeking Parents Worry Over Plans for Summer

Promise NYC was intended to help asylum-seeker families whose immigration status makes them ineligible for other, federally-funded child care assistance. But the program, which offered subsidized care for 600 children,…