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However, the problem government officials are addressing is one of their own creation. Child care is so expensive largely because government red tape gets in the way, and New York is the second-worst state in the country for burdensome regulations.
“Childcare regulations aim to overcome information and measurement problems in the childcare market,” write Anna Claire Flowers and Vincent Geloso of the Archbridge Institute and Ricky Feir and Samuel Tipka of North Dakota State University’s Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth in the 2026 State Childcare Regulations Index, released last week. “However, state and federal regulations can have unintended consequences such as limiting supply, raising prices, and slowing new innovation.”
The authors look at state-imposed rules for child care facilities, “including child-to-staff ratio requirements by age, maximum group sizes by age, required annual training hours for staff, and minimum educational requirements for center directors and lead teachers.”
The five states with the least regulatory burden, according to the Archbridge report, are Idaho, South Carolina, Arizona, Alabama, and Florida; the five most bound by red tape are Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
Read the full article at Reason.
Read the State Childcare Regulations Index report here.
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