Making New York affordable is the unifying theme of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2025 plan, she said.

Hochul gave her State of the State address to a packed crowd at The Egg in Albany on Tuesday.

“Your family is my fight. That has been the inspiration and impetus for everything we have done for the last three years,” Hochul told the crowd. “New Yorkers are struggling. Inflation. Sky-high rents. Wages that just feel like they can’t keep up,” she said.

Hochul said she’s calling for middle-class low-income tax cuts to anyone making less than $323,000.

She also called for expanding New York’s child tax credit to provide up to $1,000 per child up to the age of 4 and $500 for school-aged kids.

“For parents, it means more food on the table and more supplies in the backpacks of 2.7 million children,” said Hochul.

“Day care can cost over $21,000 dollars a year. Think about it: that’s 155% higher than a public college tuition. It’s like paying a second rent for so many families.”

The governor also wants universal free school meals, expanding access to infertility treatments and free diapers and supplies for 100,000 babies.

“Under my proposal, every child will get free breakfast and free lunch at school,” Hochul said.

Hochul also wants to strengthen the criminal justice system.

“I want judges statewide to use all the powers under our recent bail law changes to stop the rinse-and-repeat cycle of offenders being released over and over,” she said.

She wants to make it easier for cases to quickly go to trial.

“I’ll fight to finally close the loopholes that were created in our discovery laws that delay trials and lead to cases being thrown out for minor technicalities,” she said.

She vowed to double down a commitment to improve kids’ mental and physical health, including new digital safeguards to protect kids from predators in the everchanging world of AI technology.

The mother of the little girl who was kidnapped from Moreau Lake State Park was in attendance at the State of the State.

Trisha Sena wants more protections for children who are survivors of crime. She was there as a guest of the governor who is calling for more funding for child advocacy centers to ensure that children have one dedicated advocate to work with them through the entire criminal justice process.

“We’ll take on the new and evolving dangers and defend our kids against harmful AI bots posing as friends,” Hochul said.

Hochul is also proposing making community college free for all students ages 25 to 55 in high-demand fields that include advanced manufacturing, education and healthcare.

“This is real savings for New Yorkers pursuing new careers and puts money back in their pockets while filling job openings in these critical industries,” she said.

She reaffirmed her stance on making sure New York continues to search for greener power sources.

Hochul also plans to strengthen health care for New Yorkers, and said she would expand services for people with disabilities. She also wants to focus reaching the state’s clean energy goals.

“We are truly the first generation to experience the effects of climate change and we are the last generation who can do anything about it,” she said. “This year I’m calling for an historic $1 billion investment to further the transition to a zero-emission economy.”

Supporting documents that went with the speech also show Hochul is proposing $400 million to revitalize downtown Albany. The plan would include revitalizing vacant or dated buildings, and a $150 million renovation to the New York State Museum.

Hochul concluded her speech by talking about how New Yorker overcame the Great Depression, inflation in the ‘70s, the downfall of industry, 9/11, the Great Recession and a global pandemic.

“We overcome adversity. It’s who we are. And we’ll make sure that when people get knocked down that they can get right back up again,” she said.