How free childcare started winning US elections: ‘Overnight, people realized how essential it was’

Francesca Hong, a candidate for Wisconsin governor, is part of a wave of democratic socialists finding traction with an old idea In a matter of weeks, Francesca Hong, an unlikely candidate for governor in one of the country’s most heated battleground states, will test a message that is at once radical and, to many, incredibly practical: the government should help pay for childcare. “When we talk about free childcare, you can connect to folks whether it’s on an economic argument or just purely...

By Sunny Patel