The Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA) is grateful to the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families for funding the research completed by COWS and the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty on the state of Wisconsin’s early care and education (ECE) workforce. The results from three surveys (Teachers, Program Directors and Family Child Care), which complete the Series of Studies of the Wisconsin Early Education Workforce, are deeply concerning and illustrate the long-known but ongoing grave state of Wisconsin’s ECE system. In response to key findings, WECA contends it is time for our state to invest in child care as the public good that it is and support a system of care not just financed by working families. (author abstract)