Child Care Aware® of America conducts an annual survey of Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) organizations and state agencies to collect information on child care supply and prices, across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. This year’s report, Child Care in America: 2025 Price & Supply, shows a small decrease (1%) in the number of licensed centers, a reversal of the upward trend seen over the past several years. Family child care (FCC) homes saw a small increase (1.4%), in line with the trend seen last year. Overall, supply is not moving in the direction we need it to. A gap remains between what families need and what is available, and, in 2025, no real progress was made in closing the gap. 

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Twenty economists and early childhood experts from across the country gathered in Omaha, NE to discuss the challenges facing the child care field and examine how to use what we have learned to improve the child care system. 

Inadequate state investment in child care holds families, employers, and our economy back. Read our new report to see how your state measures up.