Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...New York has taken another step toward creating a universal child care system, with Monroe County at the forefront. While universal child care is well established in Nordic countries, movement toward it has been slower in the United States. Rolling out the programTo achieve the universal part of universal child care, plans call for the pilot program to remove traditional barriers, typically related to income. For example, while New Mexico’s universal child care system has been heralded for the progress it has made with eligibility and access, actually finding care can be difficult. Older universal child care systems have dealt with the problem in creative ways.