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Child Care Costs Keep Outpacing Inflation
By: Anneken Tappe – April 17, 2024
The cost of child care outpaced inflation in March, as parents across the United States grapple with the price they pay for quality care of their children.
The cost of daycare and preschool rose 4.4% year-over-year in March, per data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, while the overall inflation index rose 3.5%.
How to Cut Crime, Alcoholism and Addiction? It’s Not Elementary, But Preschool
By Maia Szalavitz - June 09, 2011
To cut crime, raise education and income levels, and reduce addiction rates among the poor, no program offers more bang for the buck than preschool, as a new study published in Science demonstrates.
The long-term study followed 1,539 children born in 1979-80. They lived in the lowest-income neighborhoods of Chicago, where nearly 40% of residents live below the poverty line; most of the children were African American.
