Washington State Auditor

What's going on? Yeah.

In July, Center Square found that Washington State Auditor's Office reported more than $413 million in child care payments could not be fully tracked.

Approximately $37 million was identified by the office in questionable payments because required attendance documentation was missing or incomplete.

We had 22 Minnesota businesses, including daycares in April, investigated.

Yes

... that the Center Square said, well, even the Washington State Auditor's Office said, there's $400 million in payments for childcare that can't be fully tracked.

Wouldn't it, wouldn't it occur to somebody if you're in the business of doing human services, that when you see a number like daycare and $70,000, and you think, that's not a single family house with 50 kids in it, so what's going on there? That the numbers alone would make you question what's going on.

Is, is nobody minding the store in Olympia, or alternatively, are they minding the store, but they're saying, "Yep, we understand how this works.