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In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
US actually provided child care to mothers employed during WWII. [0]

Richard Nixon vetoed the bill that would have expanded it out to all families. [1]

Funny how we keep forgetting the past and reject what benefited us as a whole with a moved to pure individualism built around selfishness. AKA The rich keep getting richer.

[0] https://www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/the-lanham-act-and-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Child_Developmen...

The US will kick into gear at certain emergency times (WW2, Covid, etc) but not so great outside of then.
it's because people dont operate with facts and truth. they just want lies instead, sad reality
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The use of the word "free" always reveals the bias of the outlet in these articles. This should read "tax-payer funded child care".
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Free at the point of use is how it's usually expressed.
Medicare should cover children. Then we'd be covering children and the elderly. I think that seems fair--children deserve healthcare (just like education) as a fundamental right. It shouldn't be dependent on their parents.
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Be aware that Medicare is a long way from free. At least if you've had a well-paying job in the past few years, Medicare premiums are pretty similar to exchange costs (or COBRA).
It's not an unmitigated positive, instead it's a transparent move to paper over the high cost of housing by getting both parents to work. Of course housing prices will adjust accordingly, the supply remains the same, and the demand side has more money to spend.
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Land price will adjust accordingly in response to any positive economic news. If you want an unalloy good to come out of these programs, tax lands.

Otherwise, any welfare program will just get some of its value captured by landlords.

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Land value tax is interesting because it encourages/forces more efficient use but you can do a lot more by cutting demand through limiting immigration and financialization opportunities.
Exactly. Now landlords will charge more. The owner of assets get all the money.