Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has found $170 million in federal aid to keep a pandemic-era child care subsidy program afloat for another year and a half. Evers' administration announced Monday that it will use pandemic response dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to keep the Child Care Counts program going through June 2025. Launched in 2020, the program provides aid to child care providers. It would have expired in January without additional funding. Evers called a special legislative session last month to prod Republican legislators into allocating state dollars to keep the program running but the GOP refused to cooperate.
