You may soon see help on the way for Door County families in search of child care. The absence of affordable childcare options has been well documented in Door County and Family Friendly Wisconsin State Director Brita Olsen says the concerns are echoed across the state. Olsen believes there’s hope to ease the local childcare shortage through proposals in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. 

The scarce child care scene in the area was noted as a catalyst in the local unemployment rate to DoorCountyDailyNews.com last month by Lakeshore Cap’s Colleen Homb. Olsen compliments the agenda on being designed to help working families. Proposals surrounding childcare in President Biden’s agenda include publicly supported universal preschool for three and four-year-olds, ensuring that no middle class family pays more than seven percent of their income in child care, and an extension of the monthly child tax credit. According to whitehouse.gov, 56 percent of children under the age of six do not have good childcare options and that through the agenda middle-class families would save an average of $14,800 per year.