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A $50 million push hopes to make child care a top issue in the midterm elections
3+ day, 14+ min ago (520+ words) By MORIAH BALINGIT, AP Education Writer The Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, created a decade ago, aims to make caregiver issues more salient in elections. The announcement comes as the cost of child care continues to rise and as…...
New Mexico’s promise of free child care comes with a fiscal escape hatch
1+ mon, 22+ hour ago (788+ words) By MORGAN LEE and SAVANNAH PETERS As parents across the nation grapple with crippling daycare bills that threaten to keep them at home and out of the workforce, political leaders from New York to San Francisco have been angling to…...
New Mexico is the first state to promise free child care for all families
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (744+ words) By MORGAN LEE, Associated Press Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced her plans this week, saying she wants to leverage a financial windfall from oil and gas production to help more parents by removing the state's income eligibility limit starting Nov....