Criminals work as childcare providers in Wisconsin
In her ongoing series “Cashing in on Kids” which has found millions of dollars in fraud within Wisconsin’s $350 million taxpayer subsidized child-care system, Raquel Rutledge writes that hundreds of convicted criminals, including those who had physically abused children, are being licensed to run day care centers. Some of them now appear to be scamming the system. The Journal Sentinel cross-checked the list of day care providers with the state’s criminal courts database to come up with 498 names of ex-cons who received money this year from the Wisconsin Shares program.
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