The state’s Child Care Bridge Payments program for providers expires this week, and Wisconsin Early Childhood Association Executive Director Ruth Schmidt says families and policy makers will need to make decisions:
“Either people will need to leave the workplace, or they need to get paid higher wages, or we need to step in with some sort of a public investment into this because we acknowledge that the entire state relies on there being a healthy system of child care, which we don’t have right now.”
The Bridge Payments program was established when the earlier Child Care Counts pandemic-era stabilization program was set to expire about a year ago but is now ending with nothing to replace it.
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