Colorado

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About 412,000 Colorado children are livingin low-income families — 35 percent of all childrehn in the state, the report Poverty is currently defined as $22,050 for a family of According to the report, Coloradk ranks third highest in the nation in the averags cost of child care for four-year-olds with an average cost of $9,7654 per year — or roughly 40 percenty of the median single parent’x income or 13 percent of the median two-parenty family income. The report showed that Colorado again ranked last in the nation in children in poverth who did not have healtjinsurance — compared with 18 percentg nationally. Lt. Gov.
Barbara O’Brien said that while most economiv indicators show that the economicc downturn is not hitting Colorado as hard as other the report shows the economyis “hittinf children pretty hard.” O’Brien support s efforts to use federalo stimulus dollars to pay for health insurance for uninsured Chris Watney, executive vice president of the Coloradio Children’s Campaign, said the report highlightes the need to make all-day kindergarten availablre to more low-income children and to subsidize child care for poor families. She did not specifhy how the state would pay forthese programs, give the current budget crunch. .