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Kathy Hochul: “Universal childcare is not something I thought of overnight…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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Governor Hochul Delivers Remarks at the 5BORO Child Care Summit

Published | Video Starts at 08:08

I'm going to encourage you to take a look at this again. I was disappointed in how few employers were looking at this. But we can't go it alone. I mean, Universal childcare is not something I thought of overnight. Actually I had thought about it for years and announced it in my state of the state addressed last year. that we can get to this place. But I'm also going to tell you this. It is about 14, 15 billion dollars a year to do statewide universal. (08:08–08:19)

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Asserts that universal childcare was announced in the state of the state address last year.

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