EdSource

Amid pandemic, infants especially need quality child care, reformers say

Children are born ready to learn. In the first year of life, the brain doubles, with about 90% of brain growth happening before kindergarten. However, only 1 in 3 eligible children under 5 years old ...
Center for American Progress

The True Cost of High-Quality Child Care Across the United States

Increased public investment in child care is needed to help families access high-quality, affordable child care that meets their needs. The high price of child care has long been a burden for most ...
Center for American Progress

Data on Child Care and Early Learning in the United States

The Center for American Progress’ data dashboard allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics. Read more and explore additional ...
USA Today

Where is child care most expensive? New labor department data breaks down costs by county

LaFrancesca Mitchell was shocked when she first discovered how much day care would cost her in Las Vegas. Everywhere she looked charged about $750 a month, and that was six years ago when her son was ...
Oregonian

Oregon ranks among the most expensive for infant child care in U.S.

Paying for care for a baby in Oregon can cost more than supporting a college kid. The average cost of infant care in the state in 2024 was about $19,064 a year, or $1,589 a month, according to a new ...

Hundreds of P.E.I. families seeking infant child care as province works to expand spaces

Hundreds of P.E.I. parents can't find child-care spaces, especially for infants. The provincial government says expanding ...
Health Affairs

Prenatal Substance Use Policies And Infant Maltreatment Reports

We studied the effect of state punitive and supportive prenatal substance use policies on reports of infant maltreatment to child protection agencies. Punitive policies criminalize prenatal substance ...