(Corvallis, OR) -- Public funding for child care in Oregon is helping to increase the number of openings. A study by Oregon State University finds that from 2020 to 2022 available child care increased five-percent. The increase lifted several counties out of "child care desert" status. That's where at least three children are trying to get one day care opening. Eight of Oregon's 36 counties moved out of desert status. Every county in Oregon continues to be a child care desert for infants and toddlers. Funding for that age group increased 49-percent.