- Hilary Shager, Yonah Drazen, and Liesl Hostetter
- March 2025
- Link to Executive-Summary-What-Will-Happen-If-Child-Care-Counts-Stabilization-Funding-Ends-Implications-for-Wisconsin (PDF)
- Link to Final-Report-What-Will-Happen-If-Child-Care-Counts-Stabilization-Funding-Ends-Implications-for-Wisconsin (PDF)
This report presents findings from the latest questionnaire in a series developed by the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and the Department of Children & Families (DCF) to study the Child Care Counts (CCC) Stabilization program in Wisconsin. Wisconsin child care providers answered questions embedded in the November 2024 CCC Stabilization application with the goal of learning about the potential impact of reduced public funding for child care and early education in Wisconsin. To achieve this goal, we asked a series of questions about the anticipated impacts on child care programs and communities if CCC funding ends in June 2025. Providers’ responses to these questions were grounded by an additional series of questions documenting Wisconsin child care providers’ experiences and behaviors between May 2023 and November 2024, when they experienced an approximately 50% reduction in CCC payments compared to previous funding levels. Respondents (N=3,646) composed a large, diverse, and representative sample of the full population of child care providers throughout Wisconsin.
Categories
Child Development & Well-Being, Children, Early Childhood Care & Education, Education & Training, Employment, Labor Market, Low-Wage Work
Tags
American Rescue Plan Act 2021 (ARPA), Childcare, COVID-19, Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Wisconsin