{"id":346668,"date":"2026-09-14T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346668\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:38:08","slug":"new-york-city-is-expanding-free-childcare-some-providers-are-still-waiting-to-get-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346668\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Is Expanding Free Childcare. Some Providers Are Still Waiting to Get Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">New York City has launched its new 2-K program as the first major step toward universal childcare. But some providers started the school year without city funding they were counting on, leaving some to borrow money or dip into their own savings to cover payroll, rent and supplies. WNYC\u2019s Karen Yi explains why payment and contracting delays keep happening and what they could mean for the city\u2019s plans to expand free childcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Got any questions, comments or story ideas? Send us a message at <a href=\"https:\/\/wnyc.org\/browse\/shows\/episode\/simplecast\/mailto:NYCNow@WNYC.org\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NYCNow@WNYC.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-base line-height-3\">Photo: Kara McCurdy \/ Mayoral Photography Office \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City has launched its new 2-K program as the first major step toward universal childcare. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4982,87440,17,2538,9,12,4999,56,63,65,64,7994,21888,7178,25774,87439],"class_list":["post-346668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-arts","tag-classical","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-npr","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public","tag-radio","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346668","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=346668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}