On Dec 26, 2025, at 4:33 PM, Zohran Mamdani <contact@transition2025.com> wrote: The holidays are about being with family, Danny. For some, it’s a welcome break from work or school. Yet for many, the struggle to afford childcare continues all the same. Here’s the reality for a family in New York: affording childcare requires you to make more than $330,000 a year — and that’s just for a single toddler. After rent, childcare is the biggest cost burden on working families with kids. And these are some of the only options that they have:A parent leaves their job. In 2022, we lost $23 billion in economic activity because parents quit jobs, or had to cut hours, to take care of their kids. Families leave New York entirely. Households with young children are twice as likely to move. Families go into debt because they have no choice but to pay these prices, which force them to make impossible tradeoffs. This is the affordability crisis in action. That’s why universal childcare is a priority for me when I take office. The good news is that there is a consensus: we need to act. The goal is universal, no-cost childcare for every family in New York City. We can expand 3-K and pre-K to the youngest children, but it only works if we build it right. So over the next few months, we’ll be speaking with families and childcare workers about what this needs to look like. Because with universal childcare, more families can afford to stay, more babies are born in New York City, and more kids are raised as New Yorkers — we stop losing the next generation and start building the city they deserve. That’s the New York we’re fighting for. Happy Holidays — more to come in the New Year! In solidarity, Zohran When we enter City Hall in 6 days, expectations will be high. We will meet them. |
Really? Please quantify “affordable”. Breakdown per Tootris News and Education Center for 2021.