In late December 2025, a series of videos by 23-year-old citizen journalist Nick Shirley thrust Minnesota's long-simmering child care fraud issues into the national spotlight. Shirley's investigative footage, starting with his December 26 YouTube upload titled "I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal," alleged widespread abuse of taxpayer funds in the state's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP).

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