The Economic Policy Institute has created an interactive state-by-state analysis of the cost of high-quality early childhood education.
At present, most ECE workers/teachers are grossly underpaid, some well below the poverty line.
It is fair to assume that policymakers today are unlikely to pay the cost of high-quality ECE. In many states, and at the federal level, policymakers do not believe in investing in the future. They prefer to give tax cuts to the wealthiest people and to corporations.
Consult the EPI website to see what it would cost your state to have first-rate ECE:
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| Thanks to a new interactive online report from EPI and the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at U.C. Berkeley, readers can find out what it would cost to create a high-quality early child care and education (ECE) system in their state and how many teachers, parents, and children could benefit. The report acknowledges what policymakers are beginning to recognize: we can’t solve the child care crisis without a major investment. A companion reportoutlines the resources currently invested in early care and education in the U.S., including some of the unspoken costs of our chronically underfunded system—underpaid ECE teachers living in poverty, parents forgoing paid work to care for their children, and compromised quality of care. Visit the interactive report » |
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A lot less than for incarceration, unemployment, and health costs.
But then big $$$$$ interests don’t want us to know this.
I know of no definition of high quality early childhood care and education so clearly focussed on the wages and benefits for professionals at this level.
I noticed in the Report, not the interactive website, that the work of economist James Heckman is cited. Heckman is interested in marketing early childhood care and education as a financial investment with returns to investors well north of seven percent.
Robinhood.org has produced metrics on the economic return on investments in “high quality” NYC programs. Yvonne has mentioned a few of the factors that are actually being used to market early childhood care and education to investors.
Heckman’s curve is frequently cited to justify investments in early education. See https://heckmanequation.org/resource/the-heckman-curve/
Interesting links, Laura. Sounds great, but what’s the subtext? Could you just nutshell for me exactly how investors recoup that 7+%?
I have followed Nobel Laureate, James Heckman’s publications on the return of investment for Early Childhood education for some years. The articles that I have read usually reference the return on investment for government. For instance, quality Early Childhood programs increase employment, reduce incarceration and the effects extend to the parenting of the next generation.
The return on investment is the reduction of welfare, incarceration and other social services that are needed for adults. His data suggest the earlier intervention begins the bigger the return.
Rahm Emmanuel promoted a bond program through Pay for Success in 2015 to increase high quality Early Childhood programing in Chicago, but I have not seen that mentioned In James Hackman’s work.
Seriously? These jerks at the Economic Policy Institute want to spend money on little children?
Do they have any notion how much it costs to repave the heliport at one’s Montana hunting lodge these days? Fees at a golf club that won’t let those people in?
How can there be money for educating children? This comes from the Orange Buffoon’s SOTU speech.
“To safeguard American Liberty, we have invested a record-breaking $2.2 trillion in the United States military,” Trump said.
Like Jabba the Trump himself, it had shrunk to almost nothing before his administration took office. It was only larger than the next seven militaries in the world combined.
Congress actually clapped when Rush L got the Medal of Freedom in Trump’s SOTU speech. Did you know that white Christians [the only people who matter in the U.S.] are under attack and this is being taught in our schools.
This country is SICK!!!!!!!!!
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Rush Limbaughl:
Ninety percent of all the people that matter in the United States are white, and that, of course, is being taught as bad and as a reason why there’s so much inequality, unhappiness, disparity, misery, discrimination. It’s all being blamed on white privilege, white majority domination.
And of course none of it works unless students are also taught, people are taught that the majority of white people are Christian, therefore they’re discriminatory, therefore they’re bigots, they’re anti-gay, they’re anti-transgender, they’re anti-minority, all of this. Now, you wonder, when you see protests at major institutions of higher learning at colleges and universities, you see these little snowflakes running around talking about the guilt they feel about white privilege, it’s because it’s being taught to them at a very young age, and it’s getting younger.
Trump Gives Conservative Radio Show Host Rush Limbaugh Medal of Freedom During State of the Union Speech
President Trump gave conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. The president disclosed that the political commentator had stage four lung cancer and said he was the “greatest fighter and winner that you will ever meet.” “I am proud to announce tonight that you will be receiving our country’s highest civilian honor,” Trump said. “I will now ask the First Lady of the United States to present you with the honor, please.” Cheers were heard in the House chamber as First Lady Melania Trump put the medal around Limbaugh’s neck.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-gives-conservative-radio-show-host-rush-limbaugh-medal-of-freedom-during-sotu?source=email&via=desktop