The Issue That Forged The Unlikely Mamdani
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This story was originally reported by Jennifer Gerson of The 19th. Meet Jennifer and of her reporting on gender, politics and policy.
She’s a centrist Democrat and newly minted grandmother born and raised in Buffalo whose first childhood home was a trailer by a steel plant.
He’s a Democratic socialist and a newlywed, born in Uganda and raised mostly in New York City by a renowned film director and a Columbia University professor.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee in New York City, are an unlikely political pairing in many ways. But what brings them together is a shared interest in affordable child care — specifically the idea of making it universal for New Yorkers.
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It’s a policy Hochul has stressed while talking about her support for Mamdani, who is likely to be named the winner of the city’s mayoral race after polls close Tuesday.
“I’ve had conversations with Assemblymember Mamdani about how we can get to universal child care. I believe we can. I believe that,” Hochul said this month at an event with Mamdani at the Boys & Girls Club of Queens in Astoria.
Experts in child care policy and the politics around it see the shared ground for these two politicians — even if they don’t agree on all the details — as emblematic of how critical the issue has become to many voters, particularly younger ones. It’s especially true in New York City, which is heavily Democratic, and the state, which is solidly so.
Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Moms First, a national group organizing on paid leave and affordable child care, said that she’s seen a shift in the past two years and that “universal child care is quickly becoming a platform issue on every single Democratic platform.”
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Amanda Litman, the president and co-founder of Run for Something — which recruits and supports young, progressive candidates to run for local and statewide office — said affordability is the issue defining millennial candidates’ races right now, as evidenced in the Mamdani campaign. The fact that child care figures so prominently is no surprise, she said, since for many millennials, struggling to afford child care is part of their lived experience.
“Politicians who want to win and who want to be seen as fighting both for families but also for the future of the economy will position themselves accordingly,” Litman said.
Enter the unlikely partnership of Mamdani and Hochul.
“I think we’re at a turning point,” Hochul said in a phone interview with The 19th. “There’s a larger narrative around this now.”
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But for her, the issue is nothing new.
“I’ve been talking about this long before there was a mayor’s race with this position, and I’m glad we have other people who are supporting my position,” Hochul said. “As a mom-governor, this is personal and it’s something I raised in my first budget and I raised again this year. I love that people are talking about it through an affordability lens as well.”
Hochul said that years ago she had to leave a job she loved on Capitol Hill because she couldn’t find affordable child care. She’s concerned about how little has changed since — she’s now watching her own children, who have begun having children of their own, encounter the same issue.
As governor, she tripled the child tax credit in the state, giving families up to $1,000 per child under the age of 4 and up to $500 per child from 4 to 16. This spring, Hochul also announced a $2.2 billion investment in child care, including $110 million for new child care facilities, repairs to existing sites and new home-based programs. She also raised the eligibility threshold for child care assistance so that families of four making up to $108,000 are eligible for child care that costs just $15 per week.
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According to the New York City Comptroller’s Officethe average annual cost of child care in 2024 for infants and toddlers in family-based care was $18,200, up 79 percent since 2019; for center-based care, it was $26,000, up 43 percent since 2019.
In her State of the State address in January, Hochul expressed her desire to create a roadmap for universal child care for New York state, forming a task force and considering revenue streams outside of raising taxes.
Mamdani has proposed no-cost child care for New York City children six weeks through 5 years old and has discussed raising taxes on the highest income brackets to do so. But the mayor of New York City does not have the power to raise taxes — to fund his proposal, he needs the assistance of the governor’s office.
However, raising taxes is something Hochul has not expressed support for: Even after her appearance at a rally with Mamdani on Sunday was met with chants of “Tax the rich!,” she said in an interview on a Fox News podcast the following day: “I will say one energetic rally does not get me to change my positions. I assure you.”
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Hochul told The 19th that it would take approximately $7 billion — than the city’s police budget — to fund universal child care in New York City and close to $15 billion to implement it statewide.
In a statement, Mamdani’s spokesperson Dora Pekec told The 19th, “After rent, the number one cost facing families is child care — it’s driving working families out of this city, which is why Zohran Mamdani has made universal child care a cornerstone of his affordability agenda. Zohran is grateful for Governor Hochul’s partnership on the issue and looks forward to making universal child care a reality for all New Yorkers alongside her.”
Hochul said she is happy to see that the conversation about child care has been shifted out of the realm of “women’s issues.”
“It’s about time that we have than just the moms,” she said. “Having a mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani embracing this as well shows that this is not a gender-specific issue at all, and I think that’s the progress we’ve been needing.”
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The Mamdani-Hochul alliance speaks to politicians’ belief that action on child care is critical to winning Gen Z and millennial voters who are feeling shut out of the promise of economic mobility.
“I’ve always said this, but whoever basically fixes child care will win the ballot box. … It is such a pain point and such a deciding factor for so many families and the trajectories of their lives,” Saujani said.
Rebecca Bailin founded New Yorkers United for Child Care two years ago when the city’s universal preschool program for 3-year-olds was under threat of budgetary cuts. Since then, she has organized over 10,000 New York City parents around the issue of universal child care in the city.
“In all my years of organizing, I’ve never seen something so resonant. People were ready for this because it really hits home. Yes, we care about our children and all the benefits of child care in terms of their development.
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But also this is about being able to work. This is about living our lives without totally going broke,” she said.
Bailin pointed to recent data that shows that parents with children under the age of 6 are 40 percent likely to leave New York state.
She said her coalition includes low-income and middle-class parents who are feeling the financial burden of child care, but also those watching this struggle and seeing the toll it takes — something that is now reflected in Mamdani’s campaign.
“This is aunties. This is friends who are sick of seeing their friends leave the city because they want a affordable city and want to keep the community that they’ve come to love and not lose people when they start families. This is employers who want their employees to be able to afford the city,” Bailin said.
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She credits Hochul for understanding this dynamic — and early.
“Governor Hochul is hearing what people are saying. She’s understanding that this is a real crisis moment, not just for the city, but the entire state and the entire country,” she said.
Mamdani’s embrace of universal child care as an issue has laid bare an interesting gender dynamic.
“I have been saying that for way too long, this was a ‘women’s issue’ — that people would say, ‘You made a choice to have children. This is your problem.
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Figure it out,’” Hochul said. “I think we’re seeing this transition from ‘It’s a you problem’ to ‘It’s a collective, societal problem.’ And that’s a very positive dynamic and one I’ve been working for for a long time.”
Political experts echoed the importance of Mamdani embracing the issue.
“It is rare that you see a young, childless dude talking about this issue. I think that he’s a really good messenger for this because it is not built into his bio — the way that most of his campaign is not built into his bio — but about what he’s hearing from voters,” Litman said.
She said this is why the Mamdani-Hochul alliance on this issue is a strong one. “It’s not just, ‘The woman is trying to get it done,’ but they can send the message of, ‘It’s the public servants who are trying to get things done.’ I hate this reality, but this is the reality and this is the reality that gets us to a place where we don’t have to spend some $30,000 a year on child care.”
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Saujani stressed that getting universal child care in New York City would have a huge impact nationwide. Seeing a city of this size — and a state this diverse — funding and implementing this would be a strong signal that child care is not just a personal problem for a family to fix, but an economic problem that the government can and should manage.
“Voters are drowning. They’re being priced out of the American dream,” Saujani said.
Reducing the cost of child care is “not just a sound bite, but a real reality that people are looking for when asking, ‘Have you changed my life? Have you helped me thrive, not just survive?’”
This story was originally published on The 19th.
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Published on:2025-11-04 21:30:00
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Sign up now. This story was originally reported by Jennifer Gerson of The 19th. Meet Jenni”,”copyrightYear”:”2025″,”articleSection”:”Education”,”articleBody”:”\n\n\n \n Join our zero2eight Substack community for more discussion about the latest news in early care and education. Sign up now.\n \n \n \n \nThis story was originally reported by Jennifer Gerson of The 19th. Meet Jennifer and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy.\n\n\n\nShe\u2019s a centrist Democrat and newly minted grandmother born and raised in Buffalo whose first childhood home was a trailer by a steel plant. \n\n\n\nHe\u2019s a Democratic socialist and a newlywed, born in Uganda and raised mostly in New York City by a renowned film director and a Columbia University professor.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic mayoral nominee in New York City, are an unlikely political pairing in many ways. But what brings them together is a shared interest in affordable child care \u2014\u00a0specifically the idea of making it universal for New Yorkers. \n\n\n\nIt\u2019s a policy Hochul has stressed while talking about her support for Mamdani, who is likely to be named the winner of the city\u2019s mayoral race after polls close Tuesday. \n\n\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve had conversations with Assemblymember Mamdani about how we can get to universal child care. I believe we can. I believe that,\u201d Hochul said this month at an event with Mamdani at the Boys & Girls Club of Queens in Astoria. \n\n\n\nExperts in child care policy and the politics around it see the shared ground for these two politicians \u2014 even if they don\u2019t agree on all the details \u2014\u00a0as emblematic of how critical the issue has become to many voters, particularly younger ones. It\u2019s especially true in New York City, which is heavily Democratic, and the state, which is solidly so. \n\n\n\nReshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Moms First, a national group organizing on paid leave and affordable child care, said that she\u2019s seen a shift in the past two years and that \u201cuniversal child care is quickly becoming a platform issue on every single Democratic platform.\u201d \n\n\n\nAmanda Litman, the president and co-founder of Run for Something \u2014 which recruits and supports young, progressive candidates to run for local and statewide office \u2014 said affordability is the issue defining millennial candidates\u2019 races right now, as evidenced in the Mamdani campaign. The fact that child care figures so prominently is no surprise, she said, since for many millennials, struggling to afford child care is part of their lived experience. \n\n\n\n\u201cPoliticians who want to win and who want to be seen as fighting both for families but also for the future of the economy will position themselves accordingly,\u201d Litman said.\n\n\n\nEnter the unlikely partnership of Mamdani and Hochul. \n\n\n\n\u201cI think we\u2019re at a turning point,\u201d Hochul said in a phone interview with The 19th. \u201cThere\u2019s a larger narrative around this now.\u201d \n\n\n\nBut for her, the issue is nothing new. \n\n\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been talking about this long before there was a mayor\u2019s race with this position, and I\u2019m glad we have other people who are supporting my position,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cAs a mom-governor, this is personal and it\u2019s something I raised in my first budget and I raised again this year. I love that people are talking about it through an affordability lens as well.\u201d\n\n\n\nHochul said that years ago she had to leave a job she loved on Capitol Hill because she couldn\u2019t find affordable child care. She\u2019s concerned about how little has changed since \u2014 she\u2019s now watching her own children, who have begun having children of their own, encounter the same issue.\n\n\n\nAs governor, she tripled the child tax credit in the state, giving families up to $1,000 per child under the age of 4 and up to $500 per child from 4 to 16. This spring, Hochul also announced a $2.2 billion investment in child care, including $110 million for new child care facilities, repairs to existing sites and new home-based programs. She also raised the eligibility threshold for child care assistance so that families of four making up to $108,000 are eligible for child care that costs just $15 per week. \n\n\n\nAccording to the New York City Comptroller\u2019s Officethe average annual cost of child care in 2024 for infants and toddlers in family-based care was $18,200, up 79 percent since 2019; for\u00a0 center-based care, it was $26,000, up 43 percent since 2019. \n\n\n\nIn her State of the State address in January, Hochul expressed her desire to create a roadmap for universal child care for New York state, forming a task force and considering revenue streams outside of raising taxes. \n\n\n\nMamdani has proposed no-cost child care for New York City children six weeks through 5 years old and has discussed raising taxes on the highest income brackets to do so. But the mayor of New York City does not have the power to raise taxes \u2014 to fund his proposal, he needs the assistance of the governor\u2019s office. \n\n\n\nHowever, raising taxes is something Hochul has not expressed support for: Even after her appearance at a rally with Mamdani on Sunday was met with chants of \u201cTax the rich!,\u201d she said in an interview on a Fox News podcast the following day: \u201cI will say one energetic rally does not get me to change my positions. I assure you.\u201d\n\n\n\nHochul told The 19th that it would take approximately $7 billion \u2014 more than the city\u2019s police budget \u2014 to fund universal child care in New York City and close to $15 billion to implement it statewide.\n\n\n\nIn a statement, Mamdani\u2019s spokesperson Dora Pekec told The 19th, \u201cAfter rent, the number one cost facing families is child care \u2014 it\u2019s driving working families out of this city, which is why Zohran Mamdani has made universal child care a cornerstone of his affordability agenda. Zohran is grateful for Governor Hochul\u2019s partnership on the issue and looks forward to making universal child care a reality for all New Yorkers alongside her.\u201d \n\n\n\nHochul said she is happy to see that the conversation about child care has been shifted out of the realm of \u201cwomen\u2019s issues.\u201d\n\n\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s about time that we have more than just the moms,\u201d she said. \u201cHaving a mayoral candidate like Zohran Mamdani embracing this as well shows that this is not a gender-specific issue at all, and I think that\u2019s the progress we\u2019ve been needing.\u201d\n\n\n\nThe Mamdani-Hochul alliance speaks to politicians\u2019 belief that action on child care is critical to winning Gen Z and millennial voters who are feeling shut out of the promise of economic mobility.\n\n\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve always said this, but whoever basically fixes child care will win the ballot box. \u2026 It is such a pain point and such a deciding factor for so many families and the trajectories of their lives,\u201d Saujani said.\n\n\n\nRebecca Bailin founded New Yorkers United for Child Care two years ago when the city\u2019s universal preschool program for 3-year-olds was under threat of budgetary cuts.\u00a0 Since then, she has organized over 10,000 New York City parents around the issue of universal child care in the city. \n\n\n\n\u201cIn all my years of organizing, I\u2019ve never seen something so resonant. People were ready for this because it really hits home. Yes, we care about our children and all the benefits of child care in terms of their development. But also this is about being able to work. This is about living our lives without totally going broke,\u201d she said. \n\n\n\nBailin pointed to recent data that shows that parents with children under the age of 6 are 40 percent more likely to leave New York state. \n\n\n\nShe said her coalition includes low-income and middle-class parents who are feeling the financial burden of child care, but also those watching this struggle and seeing the toll it takes \u2014 something that is now reflected in Mamdani\u2019s campaign. \n\n\n\n\u201cThis is aunties. This is friends who are sick of seeing their friends leave the city because they want a more affordable city and want to keep the community that they\u2019ve come to love and not lose people when they start families. This is employers who want their employees to be able to afford the city,\u201d Bailin said.\n\n\n\nShe credits Hochul for understanding this dynamic \u2014 and early. \n\n\n\n\u201cGovernor Hochul is hearing what people are saying. She\u2019s understanding that this is a real crisis moment, not just for the city, but the entire state and the entire country,\u201d she said.\n\n\n\nMamdani\u2019s embrace of universal child care as an issue has laid bare an interesting gender dynamic. \n\n\n\n\u201cI have been saying that for way too long, this was a \u2018women\u2019s issue\u2019 \u2014 that people would say, \u2018You made a choice to have children. This is your problem. Figure it out,\u2019\u201d Hochul said. \u201cI think we\u2019re seeing this transition from \u2018It\u2019s a you problem\u2019 to \u2018It\u2019s a collective, societal problem.\u2019 And that\u2019s a very positive dynamic and one I\u2019ve been working for for a long time.\u201d\n\n\n\nPolitical experts echoed the importance of Mamdani embracing the issue.\n\n\n\n\u201cIt is rare that you see a young, childless dude talking about this issue. I think that he\u2019s a really good messenger for this because it is not built into his bio \u2014 the way that most of his campaign is not built into his bio \u2014 but about what he\u2019s hearing from voters,\u201d Litman said. \n\n\n\nShe said this is why the Mamdani-Hochul alliance on this issue is a strong one. \u201cIt\u2019s not just, \u2018The woman is trying to get it done,\u2019 but they can send the message of, \u2018It\u2019s the public servants who are trying to get things done.\u2019 I hate this reality, but this is the reality and this is the reality that gets us to a place where we don\u2019t have to spend some $30,000 a year on child care.\u201d\n\n\n\nSaujani stressed that getting universal child care in New York City would have a huge impact nationwide. Seeing a city of this size \u2014 and a state this diverse \u2014 funding and implementing this would be a strong signal that child care is not just a personal problem for a family to fix, but an economic problem that the government can and should manage. \n\n\n\n\u201cVoters are drowning. They\u2019re being priced out of the American dream,\u201d Saujani said. Reducing the cost of child care is \u201cnot just a sound bite, but a real reality that people are looking for when asking, \u2018Have you changed my life? Have you helped me thrive, not just survive?\u2019\u201d\n\n\n\nThis story was originally published on The 19th.\n\n \n \n \n Did you use this article in your work?
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