New Mexico has become the first state in the United States to offer free child care to all families, saving them approximately $12,000 a year. The move has been taken so that the New Mexico families can work, continue education and “lift the state out of poverty.”

Speaking of the free child care for all scheme, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said child care was “the backbone of creating a system of support for families that allows them to work, to go to college, to do all the things they need to do to continue to lift New Mexico out of poverty.”

What does the free child care program offer?

Under the free child care program in New Mexico, families will receive state vouchers to cover public and private child care fees, regardless of income.

It caps years of effort by New Mex

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