Mamdani is touting universal child care. He still needs to find staffers to run it.

Politico looked at a major hurdle for Mayor Mamdani’s universal child care push: hiring the workforce needed to run it. Advocates estimate the city needs at least 30,000 more child care workers, while the jobs remain low-paid and demanding. The piece features Grand Street Settlement, a Lower East Side institution that serves more than 17,500 New Yorkers across Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, including through early childhood education programs.

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