Editor's Note: When this blog was published, the Nebraska Child Care Market Rate Survey Report 2025 (MRS) was not publicly available. It has been released since then and First Five Nebraska will provide additional analysis and commentary on the 2025 MRS soon. New...
Posts by: Dr. Katie Bass, Policy Research Manager
FFN supports funding data integration work to improve outcomes for Nebraska’s children
The Nebraska Early Childhood Integrated Data System, or ECIDS (pronounced “e-kids”), is a collaborative effort to connect and integrate data across multiple agencies and organizations that provide early childhood services to Nebraska children and families. ECIDS has...
New calculator shows how child care costs affect families
At First Five Nebraska, we are often asked, “What does the average Nebraska family pay for child care?” And as much as we’d like to give a single number, the truth is that the child care market is complex, and the price families pay for child care depends on several...



