The High Cost of Child Care Puts Quality Care out of Reach for Many Families. Issue Brief.

Autor/in	Schulman, Karen
Institution	Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC.
Titel	The High Cost of Child Care Puts Quality Care out of Reach for Many Families. Issue Brief.
Quelle	(2000), (47 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Day Care; Day Care Centers; Early Childhood Education; Economically Disadvantaged; Tables (Data) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Tagespflege; Day care centres; Hort; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Tabelle
Abstract	This issue brief presents data on the cost of child care, collected from local child care resource and referral agencies (CCR&Rs) surveyed by the Children's Defense Fund. The report's key findings on the high cost of child care are: (1) child care for a 4-year-old in a child care center averages $4,000 to $6,000 a year in cities and states around the country. Some centers charge $10,000 or more a year. Families with younger children or more than one child in care face even greater costs; (2) the average annual cost of child care for a 4-year-old in an urban area center is more than the average annual cost of public college tuition in all but one state. In some cities, child care costs twice as much as college tuition; (3) child care is expensive for families whether they choose center care or family child care, whether they live in urban or rural areas, or whether they have infants, preschoolers, or school-age children; (4) low-income families are left with the fewest choices, often unable to afford even average-priced care and therefore forced to put children in lower-cost, often lower quality care; and (5) the dilemma of high-cost child care cannot be resolved by asking child care providers to lower their prices. Most programs already operate on a very tight budget, paying staff an average $15,000 a year. (HTH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC