{"id":160950,"date":"2026-03-12T00:06:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:06:15","slug":"michaelle-solages-discusses-expanding-childcare-workforce-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160950\/","title":{"rendered":"Michaelle Solages discusses expanding childcare workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul made the expansion of child care a centerpiece of her budget proposal.<\/p>\n<p>The two one-house budgets added to the executive\u2019s investments in children.<\/p>\n<p>The New York state Senate adds $34 million to the governor\u2019s proposed pilot programs for child care for children under age three in cities outside of New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly\u2019s one-house budget proposes $100 million for after-school programs that service youth up to age 18, providing funding for an additional 40,000 slots.<\/p>\n<p>Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter spoke with Assemblymember Michaelle Solages about the issue. She is hoping to see the creation of a fund to support the child care workforce.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul made the expansion of child care a centerpiece of her budget proposal. The two one-house&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[206,205,109,116,204,202,9,24,55,54,49,12,56,112,87,3476,201,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-160950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-capital-tonight","10":"tag-app-local-state-politics","11":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","12":"tag-capital-tonight","13":"tag-capital-tonight-interviews","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-city-news","18":"tag-new-york-state","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-state-assembly","24":"tag-susan-arbetter","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}