{"id":332033,"date":"2026-08-28T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332033\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:10:11","slug":"new-york-state-budget-adds-1-2-billion-for-daycare-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332033\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state budget adds $1.2 billion for daycare assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/senator-cooney-ny-state-budget-passes-both-senate-and-assembly\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/senator-cooney-ny-state-budget-passes-both-senate-and-assembly\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> latest state budget<\/a> is adding $1.2 billion for daycare assistance, a 40% increase over last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Albany <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/education\/article\/nys-increased-child-care-assistance-program-1-2-22404807.php\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/education\/article\/nys-increased-child-care-assistance-program-1-2-22404807.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Times Union<\/a>, the new funding is expected to help 170,000 families, up from 70,000 in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The money is distributed through counties, which handle applications and payments.\u00a0Last year, demand was so high, some counties ran out of funds, leaving many parents without support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May, News10NBC Investigative Reporter Jennifer Lewke talked with Gov. Kathy Hochul after Monroe County was set to get $20 million in the state funding to create 1,000 new daycare spots as part of a pilot program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/news10-investigates-state-plans-more-funding-after-local-daycares-shut-down-despite-60-million-investment\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/top-news\/news10-investigates-state-plans-more-funding-after-local-daycares-shut-down-despite-60-million-investment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News10NBC Investigates: State plans more funding after loss of daycares despite previous $60 million federal investment (May 20)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Right now, it\u2019s still not clear if the increase will fully meet the need this year.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/new-york-state-budget\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York State budget<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whec.com\/tag\/daycare\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daycare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York\u2019s latest state budget is adding $1.2 billion for daycare assistance, a 40% increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28890,9,11,10,49,43742,51,50],"class_list":["post-332033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-daycare","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-budget","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332033","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=332033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}