Work Interruptions Related to Child Care in the Early Childhood Poverty Tracker – Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy

This report from Early Child Hood Poverty Tracker provides key insights into child care in New York City over a seven-year period, from 2017 to 2023. It finds that while there have been significant gains for 3- and 4-year-olds, preschoolers and 3-K-For-All: The city’s child care landscape does not provide adequate care for mothers of children under the age of three, regardless of their income. There are too few places and the places that are still available are too often unaffordable. As a result, mothers face economic setbacks and are forced to interrupt their work schedules or leave the labor market altogether to fill gaps in child care. The report also finds that mothers whose work was affected by child care problems fared worse economically in the following year.