Here's the Wisconsin GOP view of child care

 

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Wisconsin Examiner, 7/11/2025

Erik Gunn reports:

In a survey of child care providers earlier this year the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty reported that about one in four said they could close without continued payments. Evers cited the survey during the spring while campaigning for his original $480 million child care proposal.

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