Hochul’s affordability push: universal child care, nuclear energy and safety bets
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Gov. Hochul’s State of the State centers on affordability, proposing a $50 million home-efficiency push and a plan to deliver universal child care that would cover 100,000 more children next year (bringing total to $4.5 billion; full program could cost $12–$15 billion statewide). She also leans into nuclear energy, calls for safety rules around protests near houses of worship, and outlines privacy and AI safeguards for minors, while advancing transit projects like Jamaica Station redesign and a westward Second Avenue Subway extension, with funding details to be set in the upcoming budget.
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