{"id":699064,"date":"2026-04-02T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/699064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T07:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T07:03:25","slug":"n-y-labor-commissioner-on-child-care-in-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/699064\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. labor commissioner on child care in state budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make another $1.7 billion investment in child care in this year\u2019s budget. When added to her previous proposals, that would be a total of $4.5 billion for Fiscal Year 2027 for child care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the administration, that money will deliver affordable child care to nearly 100,000 more New York children.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How will this money will be spent? Roberta Reardon, the New York state Department of Labor commissioner and co-chair of the state\u2019s Child Care Availability Task Force, discusses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make another $1.7 billion investment in child care in this year\u2019s budget. When&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":699065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[40737,5229,29875,13565,17547,29874,29873,41313,405,403,17050,50,5226,5225,5228,17545,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-699064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-app-capital-tonight","11":"tag-app-local-state-politics","12":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","13":"tag-capital-tonight","14":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","15":"tag-capital-tonight-staff","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-state","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkcity","22":"tag-ny","23":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-top-stories","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-united-states-of-america","29":"tag-unitedstates","30":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","31":"tag-us","32":"tag-usa","33":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116333839004822073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}