Kathy Hochul: “When I first became governor four years ago, I was going to…”

“… childcare options are $41,000 a year, and you're making 45 yourself or 35, it does not work out. It is just not going to work for you. So I decided When I first became governor four years ago, I was going to invest heavily in childcare. No other governor before me even talked about it. And we took $7 billion over four years. And what we had to do was to build up the entire child care ecosystem because it was decimated during the pandemic.” (05:38–05:44)

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