New Mexico becomes first state to make child care universally free

Another step toward the nanny state raising, and indoctrinating, your children. And, when the prices at the gas pump go up, blame the additional taxes imposed on oil and gas companies.

Very dangerous precedent!

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In 2022, voters in the state overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment to allocate a portion of the state’s Land Grant Permanent Fund, which is largely funded by taxes on oil and gas, toward funding early childhood and public school education. The amendment paved the way for the state to begin offering free child care to most families. New Mexicans earning up to 400% of the federal poverty level, or annual household incomes of about $124,000, had qualified for free child care under the program.

In New Mexico’s most recent budget, the Early Childhood Education and Care Department received a $113 million increase in funds, bringing its total operating budget to nearly $1 billion. Half of that fund will go toward child care payment support.