在州政府提供资金的支持下,该市正在将这些家庭从候补名单中移除。
The city is moving the families off the waitlist with funding provided by the state.
纽约——市长佐赫兰·马姆达尼(Zohran Mamdani)于周一宣布,此前一直在等待托育券的1万多户纽约市家庭现在将获得援助。
NEW YORK — More than 10,000 New York City families who’ve been waiting for child care vouchers will now receive them, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday.
市政府将把这些家庭从州托育援助计划(Child Care Assistance Program)的候补名单中除名。该计划向家有6周龄至13岁儿童(残疾儿童年龄上限更高)的低收入和中等收入家庭提供补贴。
The city will move the families off the waitlist for the state Child Care Assistance Program, which provides subsidies to low- and middle-income families with children aged six weeks to 13 years old, and older for children with disabilities.
这项工作得到了州长凯西·霍楚(Kathy Hochul)今年早些时候在州预算中划拨的12亿美元的支持,其中包括专门用于托育券的4.75亿美元——这笔资金需要市政府进行匹配。
It’s supported by $1.2 billion allocated by Gov. Kathy Hochul in the state budget earlier this year, including $475 million specifically for child care vouchers — an amount that the city has to match.
周一,马姆达尼驳斥了那些他所说的“拒绝我们努力将普遍托育视为公共物品”的怀疑论者,并将托育券的扩大形容为实现这一目标的最新努力。
On Monday, Mamdani dismissed cynics who he said “reject our efforts to deem universal child care a public good,” describing the voucher expansion as the latest effort to achieve that goal.