“On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards childcare in Wisconsin.”
What PolitiFact found
Child care cost is high and unaffordable for many families. But the claim oversimplifies a complex comparison. The percentage comparing child care cost and income is an equivalency, not an average.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Sarah Godlewski (Wisconsin state treasurer, Democrat) made this claim around 6 February 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 February 2021, 17 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Sarah Godlewski has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
Where the claim appeared
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