NIEER's analysis of the Great Recession's impacts on state pre-K found the worst impacts occurred up to four years after the recession began. Funding declined about $1 billion a year compared to the prerecession trend. Moreover, a decade later, national per child funding levels haven't fully recovered. As a result, program quality and access haven't fully returned to their previous trends, either. Only four states met all ten minimum quality standards benchmarks in 2019. Nationally, state-funded pre-K serve only one-third of four-year-olds and six percent of three-year-olds. In the wake of the Great Recession, states sacrificed access to high-quality preschool. A state-by-state analysis provides more detail to round out this sobering picture (see Table 1). (author abstract)