ChildcareCost

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.

Areas of focus

DOL National Database of Childcare Prices (NDCP)Census ACS median household incomecounty-level price-to-income affordabilitycenter-based vs. family-based provider rates

How our content is produced

Content is produced by an AI-augmented editorial team: research and drafting are AI-assisted and reviewed by the named desk editor against primary public-data sources before publication.

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