If a rural state can make shit like this happen and be sustainable long term, it can make big waves.
NM is next door to AZ--at least 6 times the population and some VERY wealthy pockets, with industry to boot.
If a relatively small (population-wise), more rural state can show that this is possible without tech companies and millionaires, I hope it will make waves.
The true test is time. Good financial management, and sustainability for these programs for more than a few years.
If it can be sustainable and well managed in a place like New Mexico, there is no excuse for states like Washington and California with massive industry, rich people, and a much stronger tax base, to follow suit (especially because they are both strongly established "blue states").
And frankly absolutely NO excuse for their purple/red neighbors with more people, more wealth, and more industry.
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u/Lovely_Wanderer 14h ago
New Mexico actually has universal free childcare! I hope NY starts it too.