New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have announced plans to launch a new program to provide free child care for 2-year-olds in New York City and to expand pre-K programs statewide. The announcement comes a week after Mamdani was sworn into office and as he ran a campaign vowing to deliver universal child care to every New Yorker.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani: “To those who doubt the power of the people to make their own destiny, to the cynics who insist that politics is too broken to deliver meaningful change, to those who think that the promises of a campaign cannot survive once confronted with the realities of government, today is your answer.”