In this video, Sonali Kolhatkar discusses a breakthrough that should be front-page news. New Mexico has enacted a program of free, universal child care that will be available to any family in the state. That marks a sweeping advance for working families—and for a broader vision of care as a public good.
Sonali (who wrote about this initiative for Truthout) explains how community organizers, not politicians, made it happen through a decade-long grassroots campaign. We also discuss the policy’s economic and social benefits—which include better lives for parents and caregivers, improved household finances for working families, better wages for childcare workers, and a real-life model for enacting universal social programs with broad bipartisan support.
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