Explore the cost of high-quality early child care and education

A new interactive online report from Economic Policy Institute and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at U.C. Berkeley describes what it would cost to create a high-quality early child care and education (ECE) system in their state and how many teachers, parents, and children could benefit. The report acknowledges what policymakers are beginning to recognize: we can’t solve the child care crisis without a major investment.  A companion report outlines the resources currently invested in early care and education in the U.S., including some of the unspoken costs of our chronically underfunded system—underpaid ECE teachers living in poverty, parents forgoing paid work to care for their children, and compromised quality of care.