Increased subsidy rates for infants do not reflect the increased cost of child care

The increase between the cost of infant and preschooler care in a child care center compared with the increase between subsidy rates for infants and preschoolers

Table: Center for American Progress Source: Author's calculations using subsidy data from Karen Schulman, "On the Precipice: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2020, Table 4c" (Washington: National Women's Law Center, 2021), available at https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NWLC-State-Child-Care-Assistance-Policies-2020.pdf; Center for American Progress, "Cost of Child Care," available at www.costofchildcare.org (last accessed June 2021).