{"id":269912,"date":"2026-06-17T19:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269912\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:07:42","slug":"3-billion-boost-for-ny-childcare-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269912\/","title":{"rendered":"$3 billion boost for NY childcare aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) -Roughly $3 billion is being added to the New York state budget for childcare assistance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Child Care Assistance Program provides vouchers to families for some or all of their childcare costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">State data shows that around 1,000 North Country families have been assisted by the program since 2021. Last year, demand outgrew funding leading to a waitlist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Child care advocates like Jamie Basiliere from the Child Care Coordinating Council of the North Country say they hope the fresh infusion of cash reduces the funding strain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"> \u201cNow that the budget has passed, extra millions of dollars have been set aside for the Child Care Assistance Program. We should not have waiting lists or backlogs,\u201d Basiliere said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There\u2019s no word on what the North Country\u2019s childcare funding will be.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) -Roughly $3 billion is being added to the New York state budget for childcare assistance.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58294,7739,1584,1583,2969,9,11,10,49,51,50,2310,6363,1631],"class_list":["post-269912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-billions","tag-budget","tag-care","tag-child","tag-funding","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-north-country","tag-plattsburgh","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269912","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=269912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}