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纽约，3月3日（路透社） – 纽约市长佐伦·曼达尼（Zohran Mamdani）与州长安 Kathy Hochul 周二共同亮相，宣布今年晚些时候将在这个美国最大城市为两岁儿童提供2000个免费 childcare 名额，这是落实新市长为全民提供免费 childcare 这一宏伟竞选承诺的一小步。
领导人表示，该项目明年将扩大至12,000个免费名额，预计惠及约10万名纽约两岁儿童，且不会要求曼达尼曾寻求而州长反对的增税。他和 Hochul 未说明明年之后的资金计划。
名为”2K计划”的项目首年资金为7300万美元，第二年为4.25亿美元，资金将来自纽约州，这是该州承诺投资12亿美元用于免费早期 childcare 的一部分。
当记者问及为该项目可能增税时，Hochul 表示：”我们可以用现有收入解决。把我的话当作你的答案。”
曼达尼在露面时未说明该项目的资金来源，但表示：”我们正在进行华尔街会称之为良好的投资。研究人员估计，每在早期 childcare 上花费1美元，可回报高达13美元。”
全民 childcare 的扩展，以及租金冻结和免费公交车，是曼达尼竞选的核心内容。他的首个任期于1月开始。
关于免费公交车，上月市长曾表示，”这仍然是一个预算问题”，因为该市正在为纽约州运营的大都会交通管理局（MTA）寻找替代收入，该机构负责运营公共交通。
曼达尼承诺冻结租金稳定公寓价格，今年晚些时候将在租金指导委员会会议上讨论，该委员会负责为该市约100万个受管制单位制定租金调整方案。上月，曼达尼任命了该委员会的多数成员，包括主席。
未来租金率会议尚未安排。去年，该委员会在6月底举行会议。
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New York Mayor Mamdani takes initial step on fulfilling promise for universal free childcare
March 3, 2026 9:37 PM UTC / Reuters / By Maria Tsvetkova
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks to guests during commemoration of MLK day at the National Action Network in New York City, U.S., January 19, 2026. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
NEW YORK, March 3 (Reuters) – New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and state Governor Kathy Hochul appeared together on Tuesday to announce that 2,000 free childcare places will be offered to two-year-olds in the nation’s largest city starting later this year, a small first step toward fulfilling the new mayor’s ambitious campaign promise of free childcare for all.
The program, which the leaders said will grow next year to 12,000 free spots for an estimated 100,000 two-year-old New Yorkers, will not require the tax increases Mamdani sought and the governor opposed. He and Hochul did not address funding plans beyond next year.
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Funding for the program called 2K – $73 million for the first year and $425 million for the second – will come from New York State, and is part of the $1.2 billion the state has committed to invest in free early childcare.
Hochul, asked by reporters about possible tax hikes to fund the program, said, “We can do it with existing revenues. Take what I’m saying as your answer.”
Mamdani did not address how the program would be paid for during the appearance, but said, “we’re making what Wall Street would call a good investment. Researchers estimate that every dollar spent on early childcare returns as much as $13.”
The expansion of universal childcare, along with a rent freeze and free buses, was central to Mamdani’s campaign. His first term began in January.
Funding concerns became an obstacle to cancelling bus fares. Asked about free buses last month, the mayor said that “it continues to be a budget conversation” as the city looks for replacement revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the New York State-run network that operates public transit.
The prices for rent-stabilized apartments that Mamdani promised to freeze will be discussed later this year at a meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board in charge of establishing rent adjustments for the city’s roughly 1 million regulated units. Last month, Mamdani appointed a majority of the board’s members, including its chair.
The meeting on future rent rates has not yet been scheduled. In the previous year, the board held it in late June.
Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; editing by Donna Bryson and David Gaffen
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