This brief—written by Stephanie Schmit and Christina Walker— highlights state-level data by race and ethnicity about differential access to Head Start preschool, Early Head Start (EHS), and Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)-funded child care, analyzed here for the first time. The brief also identifies potential policy implications and the gaps in the data that limit our ability to more comprehensively analyze the findings.

For additional resources, please also see:

• Press Release: New Analysis of Access to Child Care Subsidies, Head Start Finds Disparate Access by Race, Ethnicity, and State.
• Select State Findings: Head Start and CCDBG Data by Race and Ethnicity 
• Methodology for Disparate Access brief.
• Webinar: Recording and slides and .