$6.65 Billion: The Growing Cost of Pennsylvania's Child Care Crisis

This report presents statistics on child care accessibility, affordability, and quality in Pennsylvania. It also outlines the social and economic consequences parents, employers, and taxpayers face due to inadequate child care services in the state. It concludes by identifying steps policymakers and businesses can take to promote access to affordable, high quality child care; these include increasing compensation for child care educators, subsidizing child care, and providing incentives, like grants and awards, to high-quality providers, and numerous private sector opportunities.