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Addressing childcare costs and strengthening early childhood education
0:20:58
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Speaker Adams highlights the challenge of prohibitive childcare costs in New York City and emphasizes the need to strengthen the early childhood education system.
- High childcare costs prevent working families from staying in the city
- The council aims to fix and strengthen the early childhood education system
- Adams calls for support for parents and caregivers, building on past work and recent budget approaches
Adrienne E. Adams
0:20:58
The prohibitive cost of childcare is another challenge that prevents working families from staying here.
0:21:06
We must continue our work to fix and strengthen our early childhood education system, to prepare our youngest for their future, and to support parents and caregivers, and as we stand here today, we have a few that are out on family leave as we continue to experience the lives of our constituents across this city.
0:21:32
We can do so in supporting by building on our own past work and our approach from this last budget process.