Many families with young children live in what experts have defined as a child care desert, a community with more than three children for every regulated child care slot. Using this standard, families with infants and toddlers in every Oregon county live in a child care desert. The picture is only slightly better for families with preschool-age children; families in 25 of 36 counties live in a child care desert. In addition, higher percentages of preschool slots are publicly funded as compared to infant/toddler slots. Nonmetropolitan counties have higher percentages of publicly funded slots than do metropolitan counties. Total supply includes parent funded slots, which thrive where populations are large and incomes are relatively high. Solely building the child care supply is not an adequate solution. Families cannot use added slots unless they can afford them and quality is high enough to meet safety and developmental needs of their children. In Oregon, lack of affordability often prevents families from accessing quality care and education (Oregon Child Care Research Partnership, 2018). (author abstract)