Zohran Mamdani’s campaign proposes free childcare. Is it finally a winning policy?

A report suggests New Yorkers pay nearly $26,000 a year on childcare and Mamdani's promise could transform lives

Maggie Stockdale hadn't given much thought to childcare before welcoming her first child last year. But once she learned the high price of full-time daycare tuition in Brooklyn, New York, she knew she had to find another solution.

Now, her care duties are split between Stockdale's parents, who relocated from Wisconsin to help out, and her husband, who cut his hours down to part time and arranged with his employer to let him bring their 10-month-old to work several days a week.