In California, childcare workers, those who teach and care for the state's youngest residents, earn a median wage of less than $16 an hour. That's half as much as elementary and middle school teachers' median salaries, and $10 below the median wage for all workers in the state, according to the UC Berkeley's Center for the Study of Childcare Employment.
As you remake New York into a better home for all those forgotten by the politics of our city, a place where working people and immigrants truly feel the power that belongs in their hands, remember this: Arts and culture are the very vehicles through which we express the power to shape our destinies. We must ensure that every member of our communities can actively participate in artistic and cultural creation and access affordable, local arts programs.
I've said time and time again that I believe these are the most straightforward ways that we can actually fund universal childcare, making buses fast and free, and I've said that the two clear ways to do so: raising personal income taxes on the top 1% by 2% and raising the corporate tax to match that of New Jersey's corporate tax of 11.5%,
