day care

In many rural areas, the child care shortage is exacerbated. One mountain town in southwestern Colorado is closing the gap between kids and care by building affordable homes that are licensed to be day cares.

The change could help stabilize New Mexico’s childcare market, but it also comes with adjustment costs for some providers.

Even middle-class families can be severely cost-burdened by child care.

In most of the country, sending a kid to day care costs more than sending one to a public university. But in New Mexico, most families can pay nothing at all. 

In New Mexico, a family of four making up to $124,000 a year can now send their kids to day care for free. That’s twice the state’s median income.

Everyone’s adjusting now that pandemic-era federal subsidies have ended.

A new report warns that the looming withdrawal of pandemic-era aid for childcare could hurt children and families.

One result of the ongoing staff shortage is that parents may have trouble finding daycare slots for their kids.

The pandemic has shown that child care in the U.S. isn’t working. Most early childhood caregivers and teachers don’t earn a living wage.

Those who work outside the home must often rely on family or pay for help to supervise kids.