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  "id": 13988,
  "url": "https://www.the74million.org/zero2eight/how-one-california-county-is-building-a-childcare-system-from-the-ground-up",
  "title": "Opinion: How One California County Is Building a Childcare System From the Ground Up",
  "summary": "In 2020, voters in California’s Alameda County made a remarkable decision. Rather than accept generations of underinvestment in young children, they chose to build something families had never truly had: an early childhood system designed to work. Parents, early educators, childcare providers, labor leaders, business leaders, advocates and community organizations came together around a shared […]",
  "authors": "Kristin Spanos",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "jobs-economy,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-27T14:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-28T05:10:12.325Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-74-education-ai",
  "source_name": "The 74 (education AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.the74million.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13988",
  "original_url": "https://www.the74million.org/zero2eight/how-one-california-county-is-building-a-childcare-system-from-the-ground-up",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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