By creating a tax increment financing district, Madison, South Dakota, looks to build a child care center to improve local economic development and access to child care services.
Brooke Rollag cannot work without child care.
The mother of four is the economic development director for the Lake Area Improvement Corporation in Madison.
Her job is to understand what businesses need to locate and expand in the area. And in Madison, those businesses need child care.
“Child care is infrastructure,” Rollag said. “When you view it as a necessary means for people to go to work, that’s infrastructure.”
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By Makenzie Huber,
South Dakota Searchlight
NOVEMBER 28, 2023