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Kathy Hochul: “We put $500 million toward workforce retention and training…”

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 07:43

So for us to attract people who could be making $20 an hour working at McDonald's to want to go take care of somebody's children, we have to make it worth their while. So We put $500 million toward workforce retention and training and to up the game of being a child care provider. So we had to do that. We also created child sponsored childcare program. We split the cost with employers and a lot of people, a lot of employers have not taken us up on this. (07:43–07:51)

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