CCI provides the most comprehensive look at early care and education services across the city in its latest 2008 CCI Primer with data on access, funding, and services. Our analysis helps members of the filed, advocated, and policy makers identify current challenges and opportunities. For the Addendum to Primer, which includes updated information, please click here. For a quick summary of the 2008 CCI Primer Highlights current trends, click here.
In New York City... Too many children live in poverty.
- Over half a million New York City children under the age of 17 live in poverty.
- About 150,000 of them are under the age of 5.
Quality early care and education is often unaffordable for working families.
- The average cost of infant care is now more than $19,000 a year, more than a wage-earner working for minimum wage can make in a year's time.
- The average cost of child care is easily the largest item - more than rent or mortgage payments - for many families.
Quality early care and education is in short supply.
- More than 40,000 families are on waiting lists for subsidies to help pay for care.
- The shortage of care for children under the age of three is especially acute. There is only one licensed slot for every five babies in need of one.
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