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New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a plan to provide free child care for 2-year-olds and expand other child care support for thousands more children across the state on Thursday, in one of the first major steps toward fulfilling Mamdani’s campaign pledge of universal access.

The governor said that the state is fully funding the first two years of a free child care program for children under 2 years old in New York City, which the government will first unroll in areas of high need. The politicians are also teaming up to expand the city’s program to provide free child care and education for 3-year-olds, known as 3K.

Further, the governor has........

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