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Sara Rodriguez: “A family would have to be making $185,000 a year to afford…”

Featuring: Sara Rodriguez, Democratic | Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 43:38

If anybody out here has a child in child care, you're probably laughing right now. So with average costs in Wisconsin, just average, A family would have to be making $185,000 a year to afford one child in child care [in Wisconsin]. And I had two under the age of five. So we're going to treat it like the infrastructure that it is. No more than 7% of your income in child care. (43:38–43:50)

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Asserts that the average cost of child care in Wisconsin requires a high family income.

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