Zoran Mamdani

We cannot tell the story of the city without also telling the story of business.

To those, however, who think they can make a profit while stealing from their workers, while breaking the law, make no mistake, we will have those workers' backs each and every time.

New Yorkers have a right to quality health care, as do the nurses who provide that care.

My job as mayor is to protect both of those rights.

New Yorkers have a right to quality health care, as do the nurses who provide that care.

Well, it's truly lovely to be back on here with you.

And what I would say is that it is, as you've said, today's an incredible win for working people.

We're talking about a $1.2 billion commitment from the state of New York to the city of New York to make universal childcare a reality.

This is money that will mean

that we can fix childcare for three-year-olds across the city.

And we can start to deliver childcare for every two-year-old across the city.

And after housing, childcare is the number one crisis facing working families in the city.

It's the number one reason that they're leaving the city.

And that's because the average cost of childcare is $22,500 a year.

And so what today's commitment and today's partnership between the governor and myself shows is that working families are not going to have to make the choice any longer between the city they love and the family they want to actually raise.

Absolutely.

And I think what we have found is that the same thing that we see in conversations with New Yorkers.

New Yorkers rarely ask me how to describe my politics.

More often they ask me if my politics includes them.

And what we're seeing from both the governor and myself is a focus on the outcome of actually delivering for working families.