$15,000
Annual cost of outside-the-home daycare for an infant in Massachusetts — the most expensive rate in the U.S.
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States in which the cost of infant daycare is higher than a year's in-state tuition and fees at a four-year public college
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States in which childcare costs more than rent
Source: Christian Science Monitor
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