Elle Cuna has raised her family in New Mexico. She says childcare is especially difficult to find in the state. In big cities like Las Cruces, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, where you have access to childcare, you are in waiting lists. Elle: Access to quality early childhood education is the long term transformative strategy.
The US has a child care crisis. But New Mexico just figured out a way to fix it (hint: they’re paying for it).
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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