New Mexico — long ranked worst in the U.S. for child wellbeing — became the first state to make childcare free for most families. The result? 120,000 people rose above the poverty line.
This wasn’t a moonshot. It was a single policy shift that removed a massive, structural bottleneck — one that millions of us face every day.
If you’ve ever tried building, working, or even thinking clearly while managing childcare, you know how hard it gets. For many, the constraint isn’t talent or effort — it’s whether they can safely hand off their kid long enough to get anything done.
To bolster its workforce. Parents with childcare can work. Regardless why (fertility rate, labor force participation improvement), it is the right thing to do imho.
Done properly such policies promote a better more uniform and reliable childcare industry, moves more parents from home into the workplace, raises more in taxes from working hours, increases early socialisation for young children, etc.
I’m not sure how I feel about a government incentivizing daycare. I’d rather all parents receive financial support, regardless of their childcare decisions.
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This wasn’t a moonshot. It was a single policy shift that removed a massive, structural bottleneck — one that millions of us face every day.
If you’ve ever tried building, working, or even thinking clearly while managing childcare, you know how hard it gets. For many, the constraint isn’t talent or effort — it’s whether they can safely hand off their kid long enough to get anything done.
1.62 births per woman in 2023.
Replacement rate is 2.1 or 2.2 depends on the source.