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New Mexico has become the first state in the US to offer free child care. The country has some of the highest child care costs in the world – averaging about 12 thousand dollars per child, each year. That means many Americans choose to leave the workforce to look after their children, or – decide not to have kids.
Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhou-Castro reports from Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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