"You need more programs for kids, not less," he added.
"I'm the mother of four boys," she said, "and I know that we need more programs for our children.
In addition, we need more programs that intrinsically motivate Aboriginal girls to succeed in science and math, to become teachers, doctors or engineers, beyond sporting or modeling choices.
And until that day, we need more programs like Square's Code Camp and Girls Who Code.
We need more programs like this, like TechHub, more evangelists like Mike Butcher (Techcrunch EU), like Jon Bradford (Springboard) or like Alex Farcet (Startup Bootcamp).
Maybe we need more programs like Thorn's Silicon Valley innovation lab devoted to using technology to fight child sexual abuse or TechCrunch's own Mike Butcher bringing together experts from UNICEF and local NGOs to find ways to use tech to ease the refugee crisis in Syria.
We need more programs like this.
"We need more programs like this," Mr. Johnson tells me.
But the poll also clearly shows that New Yorkers want and need more programs for children and families – not less.
