$122 Billion: The growing, annual cost of the infant-toddler child care crisis

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Child care in Colorado is becoming more expensive—and, in some places, harder to find. Colorado ranks fifth in the nation for most expensive child care for infants, according to an August report from the Common Sense Institute of Colorado. In Colorado, child care costs between 10.5% and 38.2% of household income, depending on the county. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' benchmark for affordable child care states that …