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Measure To Fully Fund Free Childcare In New Mexico Gains Momentum, Guardrails

By Daniel J. Chacón
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s much-hyped initiative to offer taxpayer-funded childcare to every family in New Mexico, regardless of income, is closer to becoming reality.

The chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup, is championing a bill that would allow the Legislature to spend an additional $1 billion from the Early Childhood Education and Care Fund over the next five fiscal years to shore up the initiative — without requiring any copays.

“We’re investing in people in New Mexico, and we’re Read More