Check out Marina and Zakiyah’s op-ed published yesterday in the @buffalonews.com, laying out what it will take to make universal child care real for New York's families! Without real investment, any promise of universal child care becomes an empty one set up to fall short.
At a turning point for the country, we’re gathering around a Declaration of Interdependence that affirms our connections to each other and the future we’re building together. RSVP to join us April 16 to help imagine and shape what the next 250 years could be.
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Governor Hochul says our families are her fight, but nearly 20,000 kids statewide are stuck on waitlists while child care programs struggle to stay open + the workforce is paid poverty wages. The budget she signs must invest in the workforce + expand access by taxing the rich.
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More than half of all counties across New York State have stopped enrolling eligible families in the state’s child care assistance program (CCAP), leaving tens of thousands of families stuck on waitlists while the cost of care keeps rising.
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As Albany keeps negotiating our state budget past their deadline, let’s make sure our communities’ priorities are impossible for them to ignore!
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See @governor.ny.gov even billionaires like John Catsimatidis are on board with taxing the rich so child care is actually affordable and accessible to all. We see your budget extension today and hope that means you’re weaving some seriously progressive revenue measures into the final deal!
Billionaires are shaping the decisions impacting our lives and Governor Hochul keeps choosing their priorities over ours. Show up with us tomorrow, March 31, and make it impossible for her to ignore our calls to tax the rich and invest in our communities.
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As our state budget is negotiated behind closed doors by a small group of leaders, a major decision about how New York City’s schools are governed has been folded into the equation, and is now being used as a bargaining chip.
Send a letter to your legislators now!
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Yesterday we showed up outside Speaker Heastie’s Bronx office calling him to invest in the child care workforce and to clear its waitlists in the final enacted budget.
Tax the rich, not the poor — @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social
While tens of thousands of children sit on child care waitlists, NYS is still handing out critical revenue to the ultra-wealthy. We have the resources to @investinourny.bsky.social
It’s just a matter of priorities, @governor.ny.gov @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social
The school-to-prison pipeline starts with suspensions. Join us in Albany on May 11 to demand solutions, not suspensions.
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Call your councilmember TODAY and tell them to vote NO on Intros 1-B and 175-A.
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As censorship and repression are rising across the country, these bills would hand even more discretion to armed officers to decide who gets to gather and be heard. We must be clear that OUR POWER IS NOT THEIRS TO TAKE.
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This video breaks down how child care in NYS works, and why treating it as the public good that it is would change EVERYTHING.
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We’re not letting up as this final budget gets negotiated. The Assembly, unlike the Senate, left child care workers out of their one-house proposal, so we’re heading to the Bronx this Friday to make it clear that has to change in the final budget. Tax the rich and invest in the child care workforce.
Today we stood together outside the Governor’s NYC office calling for a final state budget that taxes the rich, not the poor, and invests in the child care workforce that holds our communities together.
Keep the volume up! actionnetwork.org/letters/call...
See you shortly, @governor.ny.gov 👋🏾👋🏽
Join us and so many of our friends at the next No Kings rally to turn this moment into a nationwide call to TAX THE RICH, NOT THE POOR.
Rally to fund our child care workforce
Join us this Friday in calling on Governor Hochul to tax the rich and fund the child care workforce. Time is running out!
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Show our leaders what people across New York are calling for — no less than $500M in support of the child care workforce that makes the system possible ✊🏾
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ESCCC parent leader and steering committee member Mansie recently spoke with NPR about the struggle to access child care for her infant. We're not giving up until parents across the state can access the child care they need.
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Marina’s dropping a quick update on where things stand in the state budget negotiations right now. Stay tuned for our side-by-side analysis in the coming days!
In honor of former Assemblymember Cathy Nolan’s passing
We’re in Albany today demanding taxes on the ultra wealthy and investment in the public goods New Yorkers need.
ESCCC campaign leaders @aqeny.bsky.social share the story of early childhood educator Sheila and the families she serves. New Yorkers deserve a child care system that works for all of us.
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We were proud to stand with Invest in Our New York, PSC-CUNY, @aqeny.bsky.social, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social, @ourtimefornyc.bsky.social, @maketheroadny.bsky.social & @uawregion9a.bsky.social.
This powerful movement demands the rich pay what they owe to fund our future. Will @governor.ny.gov listen? 🤔
“Taxing the ultra‑wealthy is the only way to keep the promise of universal child care and move toward the more equitable New York we say we want to be.”
Listen to @zansari8.bsky.social @aqeny.bsky.social & Marina — they know what’s up 🙏🏻
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Our tax dollars should never be used to jail children or rip families apart. Congress must reject funding that expands family detention and move toward ending it altogether. #EndFamilyDetention #FamiliesBelongTogether
Check out the instagram.com/fams2gether livestream at 4pm EST today.
Save the date! Join us April 1 for a town hall all about how we care for and nurture the next generation, because the way we raise and educate our young folks today shape the kind of communities we all get to live in. RSVP @ bit.ly/NYNext250
Push for Child Care Funding Before One-House Budgets Lock In!
📲 use our phone script to contact your elected representatives and urge them to invest in the child care workforce so programs can stay open and families can access reliable care
