Last fall, voters in New Mexico—a state that ranks at or near the bottom for children’s health—took the unprecedented step of enshrining the right to early child care in their state constitution and established a permanent funding mechanism to ensure that right exists not just on paper, but in practice.
The voters’ message was clear:
Every child—regardless of their background, family income level or neighborhood—deserves the healthiest possible start in life, and we intend to give it to them. After all, caregiving makes everything else we do possible: living stable and secure lives, helping children grow up healthy and thrive and making ends meet.
The above is an excerpt of a piece originally published in The Hill.
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