Posted on 11/01/2025 1:52:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
TAOS, New Mexico, Nov 1 (Reuters) - New Mexico became on Saturday the first U.S. state to offer free child care to all residents in a bid to boost its economy and lift education and child welfare levels ranked the worst in the country.
Under the program, families, regardless of income, can receive state vouchers to cover public and private child care fees. It culminates efforts New Mexico has made to expand access to free child care since the governor and state legislature created the Early Childhood Education and Care Department in 2019.
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The launch comes as other Democratic-run states, cities and counties eye a step popular among working families. Connecticut recently passed a bill making child care free for those families earning under $100,000 per year and no more than 7% of income for those earning more. New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed no-cost universal child care.
BIG SAVINGS FOR FAMILIES
Taos special education teacher Allyson O'Brien expects to save around $12,000 a year in child care bills for her son Otis, who is nearly 2-1/2. She and her husband Shawn O'Kelly, a truck driver, earn a fraction above New Mexico's previous income cap for free child care, which was about $129,000 per year for their family of four.
"We'll be able to go on vacation, we won't have to decide what bills we're going to pay, like, are we going to do propane or the mortgage?" O'Brien said.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Price of childcare skyrockets in 3-2-1………
New Mexico is one of the poorest states, right? It’s basically a couple of cities and one vast Indian reservation, plus a heck of a lot of federal land. It’s not a typical state and is unlikely to be the start of any nationwide trends.
They already have free child care and free lunches for illegal aliens in Oregon.
Gives the mothers more time to fart around with their friends while their cartel drug dealer “husbands” are doing their jobs.
Ping
I live in New Mexico
If they really care about child welfare, clean up the rampant drug abuse and shut down the meth labs.
The labs operate fairly open and can easily be detected as you smell chemicals when driving around.
It is obvious that pols and cops were either threatened or bribed.
Well, good. They have all that money, they should be able to pay for their own food stamp program.
“New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has proposed no-cost universal child care.”
Any New York Citians who believe anything this Pied Piper is selling is going to be in for a very rude awakening.
Socialism is wonderful until you run out of other people’s money. When are these leftard idiots going to figure out we are bankrupt?
What say you about “free” child care in NM, CedarDave?
“Free” means infinite demand.
Infinite demand means shortages.
That is one reason why economics is called the “dismal science”.
Lol.
Fine by me. There’s 50 states out there and if one of them wants to do it let the other 49 sit back and see how it works out. You never know it just might!
I’m feeling 4yo again.
They want to start the brainwashing earlier.
Fine with me. Let them be the experiment.
There is no savings. People will pay for it and complain how much everything else has increased.
“Well, good. They have all that money, they should be able to pay for their own food stamp program.”
What money they do have comes from the evil fossil fuel industry
Oh lord. You just broke the New Mexico matrix! They meant this as a hard left socialist thing. And you pointed out it was pro-life. They gonna be mad about that.
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