Francesco: A New York Times article about childcare featured one of the most darkly funny charts I have ever seen. He says Norway spends almost 30 grand a year per child on childcare, Iceland, Finland, Denmark all spend over 20K per kid. But it's not just European countries on there, Israel, Chile, New Zealand, Oz. Hungary is down near the bottom. And at the very bottom, United States, the spends $500 per year per child.
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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