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Lawmakers push large new investments for childcare workforce and to preserve slots
Summary
Senate and Assembly members urged inclusion of significant new childcare workforce funding and slot preservation in the enacted state budget, warning of potential slot losses in New York City and other counties if needs are not met.
Senator Jabari Brisport, chair of the Senate Committee on Children and Families, and Assemblymember Andrew Hevesy, co-chair of the Human Services and Labor Subcommittee, urged the Legislature to include major new funding for the childcare workforce and to preserve childcare slots in the final enacted budget.
Brisport highlighted the Senate’s one-house proposal for $500,000,000 for the childcare workforce and the Assembly’s $212,500,000 proposal to preserve childcare slots, saying those additions improve on the governor’s…
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