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With little federal support for families, states are stepping up  

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But November election results show that several states are stepping up : In New Mexico, voters passed an amendment to increase funding for early childhood education, making funding early childhood education part of the state’s constitution. In the same time period, an additional eight states fully launched at least one of the policies.

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Parents are quitting jobs, passing on raises — to qualify for child care

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The program has never been funded at the level that it needs to be to be able to meet the need, said Rachel Wilensky, a senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy. Once again, in early 2022, she decided to stop working. I think of it as a whack-a-mole problem. (For The state received another waiver in 2020.)

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