Tessa Okafor
Childcare Price Data Editor
County childcare prices, age-group breakouts, and the affordability ratio
Tessa Okafor leads how ChildcareCost reads and presents the DOL National Database of Childcare Prices. The role decides which NDCP vintage and which fields each county and state page uses — infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age prices, split by center-based and family-based providers — how those prices are compared against Census ACS median household income to compute the affordability ratio, and how corrections are triaged. Childcare-price figures are drafted with AI assistance and editorially reviewed against the underlying DOL NDCP and Census ACS releases before publication, with the source vintage stamped on every value.
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