There’s a lot at stake in next week’s New York City mayoral race. One less-covered aspect, Rachel Cohen Booth reports, is what it could mean for free child care.
Zohran Mamdani, the favorite in Tuesday’s election, has made this policy a centerpiece of his campaign, along with other affordability proposals like a rent freeze and free buses. His success, Rachel writes, might provide a template for making child care a winning issue — even as polling shows that many Americans don’t think of it as a priority.
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—Angela Chen, senior politics, policy, and ideas editor
