Parenting in New York has reached a crisis point

Child care is the largest monthly bill for many New York families. Collectively New Yorkers spend $14 billion on child care.

A lack of child care options is forcing parents out of the workplace

Women and people of color are disproportionately locked out.

  • 82% missing work for child care reasons are women

  • Black and multiracial parents have had to quit a job, or turn down job opportunities, at TWICE the rate of white parents

Child care workers are paid so little that they also have trouble accessing child care:

  • 93% of child care workers are women

  • 25% of caregivers live in poverty

  • More than half have incomes low enough to qualify for child care subsidies

New Yorkers are leaving for other states to raise their families

...just when young parents are deciding where they are putting down roots and where they will raise their families for decades to come.

This is a disaster for our economy. In 2022, NYC’s economy lost $23 billion because child care costs pushed New Yorkers out of work or the state entirely.

To retain families, New York needs free, quality, and easy-to-access child care, with well paid caregivers.