The statistics say that maybe a quarter of daycares around the state of Wisconsin could close in the next six months to a year. Like that's a challenge that we have and that's a, it's an educational challenge, it's a workforce challenge. There's about a billion and a half dollars in productivity that sits on the sideline year, mainly women in Wisconsin because they can't find accessible, affordable or high quality daycare. Like it would cost us $110 million to at least prop up the system that we have now for the next year. (16:21–16:34)
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Asserts that Wisconsin loses $1.5 billion in productivity annually due to lack of accessible daycare.
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