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The costs of Mamdani’s ‘free’ day care keep getting higher

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The price New Yorkers will have to pay for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “free” child care keeps growing.

The latest bad news: Where the mayor’s put the cost to taxpayers at $6 billion a year for universal care (for kids as young as 6 weeks), an outside estimate just came in at $9 billion.

Yes, analysts with the Center for NYC Affairs estimate that it will cost 50% more than advertised when it’s fully up and running — maybe even more.

This is no right-wing fearmongering: The center is affiliated with the New School, perhaps the most progressive local university.

And the reasons are self-evidently true: The city will have to pay workers far more than Mamdani has estimated.

Partly, that’s just supply and demand: You have to pay more to tempt thousands more workers into a job that involves changing diapers and wiping butts.

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