It is JUST this simple. Not banning abortion, but making child care easy, paying child care providers decent wages.
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Even with support from the state, she and her husband were paying $800 a month…
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But during the pandemic, that cost went down to $0. And Sanchez was not only able to finish college, but enroll in nursing school. “We are a one-income household,” said Sanchez, whose husband works while she is in school. Having free childcare “did help tremendously”
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Around the same time, Ofelia Gonzalez and her sister began receiving assistance from the state to develop their at-home childcare center…The state started reimbursing their work at higher rates, which allowed them to buy toys and swings for the backyard, and raised wages for childcare workers across the state, which allowed Gonzalez to begin saving “so that I can have good credit and in time I can have my own home”, she said in Spanish.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty
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