{"id":4399,"date":"2025-09-24T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2025-09-22T14:42:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:42:59","slug":"new-mexico-raises-the-bar-on-child-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/new-mexico-raises-the-bar-on-child-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Raises the Bar on Child Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico has passed the world&#8217;s most radical child care law, making child care free and universal for all families starting November. This historic move recognizes child care as a fundamental right, inspired by global models like those in Europe and Cuba. The policy will save families about $12,000 annually per child and includes investments in care providers, infrastructure, and workforce support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not Sweden. Not France. New Mexico Just Passed the World\u2019s Most Radical Child Care Law<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/alisav.substack.com\/p\/not-sweden-not-france-new-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/alisav.substack.com\/p\/not-sweden-not-france-new-mexico<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9780197799291\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico has passed the world&#8217;s most radical child care law, making child care free and universal for all families starting November. This historic move recognizes child care as a fundamental right, inspired by global models like those in Europe and Cuba. The policy will save families about $12,000 annually per child and includes investments&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/new-mexico-raises-the-bar-on-child-care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;New Mexico Raises the Bar on Child Care&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,65,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}