It looked like one of Zohran Mamdani’s most ambitious promises. Between a $6 billion price tag and the complexity of hiring and training potentially thousands of educators, the mayoral candidate’s ...
Bay Area child care providers, parents, labor organizers, and advocates convened this week as part of the nationwide "Day ...
Free child care is starting to take root in the U.S. But is it good for kids? Last year, New Mexico became the first state to offer free universal child care. This year, New York began offering free ...
Luisa wakes up before the sun rises in the Bronx. She’s checking the day’s schedule: an infant arriving at 6 a.m., a toddler who will stay until 7:30 p.m., a preschooler whose mother picks him up ...
New Mexico’s first-in-the-nation universal child care policy came into effect last month. This new initiative will provide new, and possibly significant, opportunities. Many details still need to be ...
State Sen. Jabari Brisport has championed affordable and accessible child care for much of his career in the state Legislature. So you could be forgiven for expecting him to stand up and clap when Gov ...
When Mayor Mamdani rolled out his preliminary budget, he made the trade‑offs painfully clear. New York is staring down a $5.5 billion shortfall. He said that we can either raise property taxes, or Gov ...
Zohran Mamdani, then New York City’s mayor-elect, reads a Christmas book to students at a child care center on Dec. 11, 2025. In his campaign, Mamdani promised universal free child care for the city. ...