Rob Grunwald, an economic and public policy analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis, promotes the idea that early child care investments are good economic development investments.
A simple message: invest one dollar in early childhood development and foreign at risk child, and you'll get back as much is $18 over the child's lifetime. Grunwald was making his case recently in upstate New York. Read more [1].
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[1] http://www.syracuse.com/business/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/business-1/1134812457276850.xml&coll=1