Qualistar Colorado has produced this brief through a grant from The Women's Foundation of Colorado. Additional support for this effort has come from the Colorado Children's Campaign. This ongoing investigation into child care affordability issues was prompted by The Women's Foundation of Colorado's The Status of Women & Girls in Colorado report and Child Care Aware (R) of America's Parents and the High Cost of Child Care report, both of which identified child care affordability as a challenge for Colorado families, particularly single mothers. This second brief in a three-part series provides an analysis of child care affordability and operating costs in Colorado in the context of costs in other states. A culminating report in late 2014 will summarize the findings from this work and will include recommendations for improving child care affordability in Colorado. (author abstract)