New Mexico’s promise of free child care comes with a fiscal escape hatch

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By MORGAN LEE and SAVANNAH PETERS

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An ambitious universal child care program aimed at fully footing the bill for working families across New Mexico is being enshrined into law, with state legislators making good on promises by Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to make the state the first in the nation to offer such a program to families of all income levels.

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