The Republican Senator believes an “imaginative solution” to the childcare crisis is to have mothers on government assistance staff daycare centers. Read the latest from BessLevin:
during a TV interview that he was against making childcare more affordable because “people decide to have families and become parents; that’s something they need to consider when they make that choice. I’ve never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children.”
But apparently the senator has given it some more thought and decided the subsidies might be okay with him if the women receiving them go to work. There are just a few problems with his proposal, one of them being that it’s illegal in the state of Wisconsin,Wisconsin law prohibits state subsidy payments from going to a certified childcare provider where an employee’s child receives care.
There’s also the matter of Johnson’s “imaginative solution” being wildly sexist, as he apparently believes that childcare is strictly the domain of mothers. Plus, as Wisconsin state senatoron Twitter, Johnson apparently thinks you can just plunk any random female into the job. “This is absolute trash,” she wrote. “Early childhood education is incredibly demanding, important, high-skill work. Everyone’s kids deserve care from well paid, trained professionals - including parents on assistance.