It also includes making sure that people can afford child care. So childcare should be no more than 7% of your income. Let's treat it like the infrastructure that it is. And right now, In the state of Wisconsin, child care is about, on average, 12,000 to $13,000 a year. So a family would have to be making $185,000 a year to afford one child in childcare. If we were going to meet that federal guideline. That's clearly not happening in the state. (15:34–15:41)
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Asserts the average annual cost of childcare in Wisconsin is between $12,000 and $13,000.
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