John,

My commitment to you and to every New Yorker is this: Your family is my fight.

In my State of the State address this week, I didn’t just share a list of proposals. I shared a concrete blueprint for our future – one that will deliver actual results that New Yorkers will feel in their everyday lives.

That’s what New Yorkers expect, and it’s what they deserve. I want to:

✅ Put money back in your pockets with a sweeping middle-class income tax cut, the nation’s first-ever Inflation Refund, and a child tax credit boost that would give parents up to $1,000 per child – triple the current maximum benefit. Click here to learn more about how we’re making life more affordable for New Yorkers.

✅ Give working parents a break and set our kids up for success with more affordable and reliable child care, universal school breakfast and lunch, mental health support at school, and a new initiative, “Unplug and Play,” which will help create more opportunities for kids to focus on just being kids.

✅ Help New Yorkers get the education they need for a new career with a proposal to make community college completely free for students 25-55 looking to enter high-demand fields.

✅ Keep New Yorkers safe on our subways with more police officers on trains — including making sure every overnight train has a uniformed officer on it, stronger laws to make sure those with severe mental illness get the help they need, and new technology upgrades to protect riders.

✅ Make it easier for New Yorkers to achieve their dream of owning a home with actions that build on last year’s once-in-a-generation housing deal and to make it harder for greedy private equity firms to snatch up homes and jack up prices.

Our policies will help create a New York where hardworking people can get ahead, where children can play safely in their neighborhoods, where opportunities are plentiful, and where champions are forged.

I want you to have a chance to meet some of those hardworking New Yorkers:

This is New York.

And when New Yorkers get knocked down, we help them get back up.

We put money back in their pockets.

We build more affordable housing.

We make sure their streets are safe.

Your family is my fight, and I will never stop fighting for you.

Ever Upward,

Gov. Kathy Hochul 

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