D.C. government will send $10,000 checks to the city’s day-care workers [washingtonpost.com]

By Julie Zauzmer Weil, Photo: Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, February 1, 2022

Thousands of day-care workers in Washington will get personal checks from the D.C. government for at least $10,000, after the D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to redirect tax dollars from the city’s richest residents to child-care workers, who legislators say they believe are underpaid.

The council raised taxes on the city’s highest earners last year, and the members voted at that time to set aside $53 million in the first year of that tax to somehow raise the pay of day-care workers, saying that their work was vital to the city’s families but not sufficiently compensated by their current salaries.

But at the time, the council had not agreed on how exactly to make day-care workers’ salaries higher.

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