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Eric Adams: “We dropped the cost of childcare from $220 a month to less…”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Mayor Eric Adams offers New Yorkers apology as growing scandals shadow his term, re-election bid

Published | Video Starts at 01:32

But let's look at what this mayor has done in the city of New York. Low income New Yorkers no longer pay any income tax. We dropped the cost of childcare from $220 a month to less than $20 a month. And when you start looking at what we've done around affordability in the city, and I like to say I can't drop the cost of bread, but we put bread back in the pockets of working class people. (01:32–01:38)

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Asserts that the cost of childcare in New York City has been reduced from $220 to less than $20 per month.

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