WASHINGTON, D.C. (WRN) — Senator Tammy Baldwin proposes legislation to address childcare costs.
The Wisconsin Democrat says the Childcare for Working Families Act will address what she calls “the broken equation” in the childcare sector.
“The marketplace, the free marketplace, is not working for workers, who are often underpaid, or families who are being forced to pay through the roof,” she said.
Baldwin was joined on a media call by Heather Murray who operates a group childcare center in Waunakee
“As a provider it keeps getting harder and harder to provide quality childcare that children deserve without direct investment from the federal government in childcare this pattern will continue,” Baldwin said.
The bill is one Baldwin has introduced since 2017 and one of three bills which she says could lower costs for Wisconsin families – if they get support from Republicans.