Storytelling: Cashing In On Kids

Wisconsin Shares is a tax-payer financed program designed to give low-wage working parents assistance with child care, encouraging them to get and keep jobs, rather than stay on welfare.  

While the need in many of the 34,000 cases is genuine, the system allows child-care providers and parents to easily con the system, capitalizing on children for public cash. This investigation into the program uncovered a trail of phony companies, fake reports and shoddy oversight--all putting children at risk.