New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) unveiled a plan on Thursday to give 2-year-olds in the city free child care.
The announcement began Mamdani’s 2025 campaign promise of universal child care. The plan will expand the city’s program to include 2-year-olds for free and bolster the program for children aged 3 and above, the pair said. On the state level, Hochul announced a commitment to expand universal pre-K for all 4-year-olds in the state by the 2028-2029 school year.
“Over the past 14 months, a movement was born to fight for a city where every New Yorker could afford a life of dignity and every family could afford to raise their kids. Today, Governor Hochul and I meet that movement as we celebrate our joint commitment to universal child care,” Mamdani said in a statement…