Zohran Mamdani: “Our goal and our commitment to New Yorkers is we're gonna go…”

“We had about 5,700 applicants, and we're rolling out these first 2,000 or so seats later in the fall. A year from now, Our goal and our commitment to New Yorkers is we're gonna go from 2,000 seats of free childcare for 2 year olds to 12,000 seats of free childcare for two year olds. And so by this point next year, we will have finished the application process, I would expect. And the reason this matters is we're talking about the subway.” (19:59–20:08)

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