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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120k people out of poverty

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ThunderSizzle wrote: post #7
toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Daycare is suboptimal. Parents have a duty to and should have the freedom to take care if their kids. Many parents feel the trap of daycare, and will never escape it. A single income household is ideal over a dual income household with hired childcare.

A single income household with a homemaking parent requires that wages or salaries be offered that can support an entire family on a single income. In most states, minimum wage (and even most hourly jobs that pay above minimum wage) isn’t even enough to support living alone for a single person working less than 60 hours/wk.

Re: New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120k people out of poverty

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Post by add-sub-mul-div »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #7
toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Daycare is suboptimal. Parents have a duty to and should have the freedom to take care if their kids. Many parents feel the trap of daycare, and will never escape it. A single income household is ideal over a dual income household with hired childcare.

The dual income norm since 1971 is just a backdoor way the top 1% have stolen from the rest of the country.

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Post by spacechild1 »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #7
toomuchtodo wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Daycare is suboptimal. Parents have a duty to and should have the freedom to take care if their kids. Many parents feel the trap of daycare, and will never escape it. A single income household is ideal over a dual income household with hired childcare.

> Daycare is suboptimal. Parents have a duty to and should have the freedom to take care if their kids.

Why should parents be the sole caretakers of young children? This is not the norm and never has been.

> A single income household is ideal over a dual income household with hired childcare.

Why should people have to choose between work and raising kids? Why not work less and do both?

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Post by dweinus »

pestatije wrote: post #3
hanson108 wrote: post #2

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, yo…

and still birth rates are reasonably high...why would a state pay for childcare if it wasnt to rise birth rates?

To improve life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for its citizens.

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Post by xyzelement »

pestatije wrote: post #3
hanson108 wrote: post #2

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, yo…

and still birth rates are reasonably high...why would a state pay for childcare if it wasnt to rise birth rates?

Birthrate in the US is extremely and unsustainably low.

1.62 births per woman in 2023.

Replacement rate is 2.1 or 2.2 depends on the source.

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