Groups of New Yorkers, (a few of them child-bearing), traveled in a car caravan from The Bronx to Yonkers last Thursday calling on state politicians to allocate increased funding for universal child care.
Their trip across the northernmost borough and its outskirts started at Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie’s office on Gun Hill Road, and led to Andrea Stewart Cousins’ office in Yonkers. Parents, child care providers and advocates joined forces at this rally to send a message to both politicians: $5 billion should be considered for their state budget proposals, set to be announced any day now.
“Everytime I think about it I get upset that I’m in this situation,” said Badmos. “I just feel like I’m damned if I do, damned if I don’t.” “When you do the math and it’s $14,000 a year that you’re spending on child care, how does a person with minimum wage pay that,” said Limongi. “The numbers just don’t add up. You still have to pay for food or rent and all the other costs.”“It’s a problem all around which is why we want $5 billion because we want to make it affordable for all families and we also want there to be better living wages for the educators.
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