Free Childcare for All with Elizabeth Groginsky
In 2025, New Mexico made history as the first state in the nation to commit to free childcare for all families. Elizabeth Groginsky, who leads this effort, joins Claudia to discuss what Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has described as a “cradle-to-career education system”—and why investing early pays dividends from school readiness to family economic stability.
Claudia and Elizabeth dive into:
The critical link between fair worker wages and childcare capacity
How New Mexico’s early childhood trust fund is helping the state stay the course
Why NYC and other cities and states want to replicate…
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