Fast Fact – Sept. 16, 2022

In addition to providing nurturing early learning experiences for young children, child care also keeps our state’s economy running—a fact that became clearer than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many child care settings closed in response to stay-at-home orders. Between late summer 2021 and 2022, an average of 31% of Colorado households with children under 5 reported that their child care arrangement was disrupted at some point in the past four weeks because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. To learn more about ongoing childcare disruptions faced by Colorado’s families with young children, please visit the KIDS COUNT Data Center. 

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The Colorado Children’s Campaign is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization committed since 1985 to realizing every chance for every child in Colorado. We advocate for the development and implementation of data-driven public policies that improve child wellbeing in health, education and early childhood. We do this by providing Coloradans with trusted data and research on child wellbeing and organizing an extensive state-wide network of dedicated child advocates. For more information, please visit www.coloradokids.org.