Report: Child care costs tip many into poverty
“Child care costs are often the tipping point in pushing low-income families into poverty, new research from the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy suggests. Nationally, nearly 1 in 10 families – 9.4 percent – who pay for child care are poor. About one-third – and estimated 207,000 families – wouldn’t be poor if they didn’t have to pay for child care out of pocket, according to the Carsey brief.”