Low-income families with working parents face significant burdens paying for child care, which can function as a barrier to work and often means parents must rely on child care arrangements that are less formal and less stable. Amid national concerns about the high cost of child care, it is important to keep this issue at the forefront. Given the especially high costs of care for very young children, this snapshot highlights the child care costs faced by families with a child under age 3. Figure 1 shows the share of families paying for child care (bottom sections) by their income level. As a family's income-to-poverty ratio rises, they are more likely to pay for child care. Poorer families who do pay for child care are much more often payin...
Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% o...
Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% o...
For many parents, one of the initial shocks in becoming a parent is discovering the high price of ch...
Low-income families with working parents face significant burdens paying for child care, which can f...
Working families with young children face substantial barriers in accessing and affording quality ch...
Working families with young children face substantial barriers in accessing and affording quality ch...
In this brief, authors Marybeth Mattingly, Andrew Schaefer, and Jessica Carson analyze families’ chi...
In this fact sheet, authors Marybeth Mattingly and Christopher Wimer use the Supplemental Poverty Me...
In this brief, authors Robert Paul Hartley, Marybeth Mattingly, and Christopher Wimer present estima...
In this brief, authors Robert Paul Hartley, Marybeth Mattingly, and Christopher Wimer present estima...
How often are low-income families pushed into poverty by their child care expenses? In this fact she...
The high cost of child care is a barrier to employment among low-income families with young children...
According to research based on the 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation, working families...
Quality early care and education and after-school activities help families' work and children succee...
Child care is expensive and difficult to find, especially for infants and toddlers. Compared to thei...
Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% o...
Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% o...
For many parents, one of the initial shocks in becoming a parent is discovering the high price of ch...
Low-income families with working parents face significant burdens paying for child care, which can f...
Working families with young children face substantial barriers in accessing and affording quality ch...
Working families with young children face substantial barriers in accessing and affording quality ch...
In this brief, authors Marybeth Mattingly, Andrew Schaefer, and Jessica Carson analyze families’ chi...
In this fact sheet, authors Marybeth Mattingly and Christopher Wimer use the Supplemental Poverty Me...
In this brief, authors Robert Paul Hartley, Marybeth Mattingly, and Christopher Wimer present estima...
In this brief, authors Robert Paul Hartley, Marybeth Mattingly, and Christopher Wimer present estima...
How often are low-income families pushed into poverty by their child care expenses? In this fact she...
The high cost of child care is a barrier to employment among low-income families with young children...
According to research based on the 2004 Survey of Income and Program Participation, working families...
Quality early care and education and after-school activities help families' work and children succee...
Child care is expensive and difficult to find, especially for infants and toddlers. Compared to thei...
Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% o...
Child care is expensive. The average cost of child care in the United States can range from 9- 36% o...
For many parents, one of the initial shocks in becoming a parent is discovering the high price of ch...