| Type: | In the News |
| Status: | Live, 10/07/2005 |
| Article Title: | Funding Preschool May Help Solve Budget, Social Woes |
| WestEd Title: | WestEd Report: |
| URL: | http://www.wested.org/cs/we/view/rs_press/34 |
| Source: | WestEd |
| Pub Date: | Summer 2005 |
| Sort Date: | 06/11/2005 |
| Date Posted: | 10/07/2005 |
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| Summary: Investing immediately in a national preschool program would yield high returns – including possibly shoring up an ailing Social Security system – says a new WestEd report. Economist Robert G. Lynch looks 50 years into the future, calculating the impact on federal, state, and local government budgets, the economy, and crime if such a program were implemented now for all low-income 3- and 4-year-old children across the country. The full report, the latest in WestEd's Policy Perspectives series, is available as a free PDF download: Early Childhood Investment Yields Big Payoff. |
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| Program: | Center for Child & Family Studies, Health & Human Development Program, Policy Center |