New York wants universal child care, and this fall it plans to push to put every kid in a seat. To staff that, the city would have to roughly double an early childhood workforce that already runs between 33,000 and 40,000 people. The bill that Williamsburg and Bushwick Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez actually moved to ease the crunch does several things. Raising the pay of the people already doing the job is not one of them.