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Mayor Bill de Blasio Delivers State of the City
State of the city speeches follow a formula. The mayor tells a couple jokes, recounts his successes over the past year and runs down a laundry list of the new stuff he wants to do. Mayor de Blasio on Tuesday threw out the laundry list to instead focus on a handful of big priorities.
A very unscientific sampling found ample skepticism, but of different stripes.
New York City has a high-quality childcare program called EarlyLearn. New York City has a large population of working families with young children in its homeless shelters. Why is it so hard to connect the two?
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