Family Life

08.16.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Child care costs exceed rent in most states. According to a report from Child Care Aware of America, the annual cost of infant care ranged from 46-hundred dollars a family in Mississippi, to 15-thousand-dollars a year in Massachusetts. They also found when 2 children needed care, the cost exceeded rent in all 50 states. In 35 states, the cost for an infant was higher then tuition and fees for 1 year at a four year public college.