Other countries manage to fund Childcare,why don’t we? New Mexico is the only state funding childcare 100%. Look at their model and replicate it. Perhaps with affordable healthcare and childcare families would be able to purchase necessities and plan for their future.
Many of the US’s national peers have figured out solutions to this problem. In Denmark, parents pay at most 25% of childcare center tuition. Canada has plans to lower the costs of childcare to $10 a day by 2026. France offers tax credits to parents of babies and toddlers that cover up to 85% of what the family pays for center- or home-based care. Germany has a sliding-scale system that charges parents based on their income.
Instead of parents paying huge childcare fees, in other wealthy nations, it’s the government that picks up the tab, spending on average $14,000 per child per year on early childhood education. Compared to those nations, the US – which contributes just $500 per child annually in grants and programs serving low-income families – is woefully behind.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-cancer-alley-plant-biden-lawsuit