Dan Worre, senior director of early learning at the Hunt Institute says New Mexico is providing a model for what it's doing to support child care. Some people would point out that we wouldn't necessarily expect a state like New Mexico to be a leader in this. Worre: What we're seeing across the country right now is that other states are finding their own ways of creating dedicated revenue sources for early childhood.
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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