How do we get to this point
with this childcare subsidy
that is about to
run out, right at a point
in an election cycle, in a year
where costs are already this
massive factor on everybody's minds.
Yeah.
this is like a story
that we've all been covering
incrementally for years and years.
And when I say incrementally,
what I mean is people ringing
that alarm bell that we were heading
towards this cliff.
And now the thing that advocates
and providers have been warning
about is about to happen.
This new report
came out last week saying that
potentially up
to a quarter of child care providers
could close
their doors, and almost
certainly more than
that are going to raise tuition
after all of these funds go away.
Republicans in the past
and the legislature
and we assume Tom Tiffany's kind of
in this category, have looked at,
you know,
the private sector means
of trying to fix
this childcare issue of like,
oh, let's lower
regulations, let's
find some discounts
or some savings elsewhere.
But instead of directly
funding them,
they've never liked
that welfare idea,
as Robin Vos would constantly call it.
And so the
we don't see Republicans
coming back to the table.
This wasn't
part of the grand bargain
that we talked
about for a month straight.
So this is a dead issue politically.
There's no one coming back
in special session
to find money to fix this.
They've all known this date is here.
The question is, what will it mean
going into the fall?
How much damage will we see
leading up to September?
And maybe because
September means school's
back in session,
it'll be a little less of
a hot button issue, but there will
still be people talking about it.
And there will be Democrats
campaigning on it.