Early Childhood Program Access and Economic Need
Official Poverty Measure (OPM) is the number of children who are under age 6 and living in households below the federal poverty threshold, measured by the official poverty measure. In 2016, the Center for American Progress introduced a working definition of a child care desert—an area with an insufficient supply of licensed child care, measured as a census tract where there are either at least 50 children under the age of 5 with no child care options or more than three young children for every licensed child care spot.