{"id":349598,"date":"2026-06-25T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349598\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T06:40:08","slug":"daycare-costs-more-than-college-the-texas-childcare-crisis-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349598\/","title":{"rendered":"Daycare Costs More Than COLLEGE?! The Texas Childcare Crisis Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"sub-headline watch-truncate\" data-v-7521dc01=\"\">Finding affordable daycare has become a massive hurdle for American families, with a new report revealing that center-based infant care now tops $11,000 a year\u2014officially surpassing the cost of in-state college tuition. This worsening shortage of accessible care has created widespread &#8220;childcare deserts,&#8221; which experts warn are now costing the Texas economy over $11 billion annually.<\/p>\n<p>Posted\u00a0June 24, 2026 11:48pm CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finding affordable daycare has become a massive hurdle for American families, with a new report revealing that center-based&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-349598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}