'We need federal dollars to make this happen everywhere in this country.'
The state is also eliminating child care copays for middle class families who benefit from subsidies, making child care free for 30,000 households across the state—the broadest swath of a state population to benefit from a free child care program, according to officials.
Advocates credited organizations like OLÉ, a coalition of parents and care providers which also joined the 2018 lawsuit, with pushing for years for better policies for families in the state.grassroots group Community Change."Parents, providers, and advocates never backed down." The governor hopes to use the state's Land Grant Permanent Fund to finance universal no-cost child care after the pilot program ends in June 2023.The state is also spending $10 million from the American Rescue Plan to increase its supply of child care centers.a 2018 analysis by the Center for American Progress, 53% of New Mexico residents live in"child care deserts."
Provisions in the Build Back Better Act including universal free pre-kindergarten for all three- and four-year-olds and subsidies that would ensure no family pays more than 7% of their income on child care are also languishing in the Senate.Dorian Warren, co-president of Community Change, of New Mexico's program.
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