After an intensive statewide listening tour to hear from parents, child care workers and providers, New York state Sen. Jabari Brisport issued an eye-opening report on the issue that you can find here.

The report shares both analysis and first-person accounts, some alarming, about both the lack of child care and its costs. 

What Sen. Brisport heard during his 10 stops this fall is that the state’s child care system is no longer sustainable. It’s one in which parents turn down promotions at work because they might be over-income to receive subsidized child care. For infants and toddlers, child care can cost over $2,600 a month or $21,000 a year. And that is only if you are lucky enough to find an open child care spot. Currently, 64% of New Yorkers live in “child care deserts."

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After his listening tour, Sen. Brisport, who chairs the Committee on Children and Families, introduced the Universal Child Care Act, S.7595, which provides for the establishment and funding of universal child care in the state of New York.

He spoke with Capital Tonight’s Susan Arbetter about the bill.