English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Despite lower income groups being more often cost burdened, this does not reflect higher costs of child care. In fact, lower income groups spend less on child care than their higher income counterparts—perhaps reflecting an inability to afford full time, center based or licensed care; costs that are offset by child care subsidies for which their higher income counterparts are not eligible; or a preference for informal care by family or friends.7 For instance, whereas poor families spend an average of $2,547 on child care annually, families at or above five times the poverty line spend an average of $10,423 per year (see Table 1). Access to quality, affordable child care is critical for American working families, and it is a major focus of efforts to bring about more family-friendly workplaces.1 In this brief, we analyze families’ child care expenses and identify, among families with young children (under age 6) who pay for child care, the share that are “cost burdened,” defined here as spending more than 10 percent of their gross income on child care.2,3 Using data from the 2012–2016 Current Population Survey, we present our findings by number of children; age of youngest child; parental characteristics; family income measures; and U.S. region, metropolitan status, and state. Unless otherwise noted, families include only those with children under age 6 who had any child care costs in the previous year.

Child Care Costs Exceed 10 Percent of Family Income for One in Four Families