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My colleague Brad Hershbein and I have a new blog post at the Upjohn Institute website on our recent surprising discovery: the percentage return to getting a college degree, in terms of higher ea...

https://investinginkids.net/2016/03/04/more-on-the-finding-that-college-pays-off-less-if-you-grew-up-poor/

I have a new paper published that bears on the following important issue: when will local economic development incentives – various types of customized tax breaks or services to individual busi...

https://investinginkids.net/2015/04/13/what-are-the-best-paths-to-prosperity-for-localities-and-the-nation/

As I discuss in my new book, From Preschool to Prosperity, pre-K and other early childhood programs provide important “fiscal benefits”. By “fiscal benefits”, I mean increases in tax reve...

https://investinginkids.net/2014/10/06/fiscal-benefits-pre-k-pays-for-itself-in-the-long-run/

Two more short videos on early childhood programs have been released, combining my words with videos and animation by Detroit Public TV. One of these videos discusses short-term benefits of early...

https://investinginkids.net/2013/12/16/final-two-short-videos-released-on-early-childhood-programs/

A new paper by Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach provides important new evidence on the effects of universal pre-K. This paper was presented in late September at the Brookings Pane...

https://investinginkids.net/2013/10/02/new-evidence-suggests-universal-pre-k-increases-overall-pre-k-enrollment-for-all-income-groups-but-provides-mixed-evidence-on-test-score-effects/

The popular Washington Post blog “Wonkblog” had a post on April 11 2013 from Brad Plumer that got my attention with this headline:  “Funding preschool with a cigarette tax is unsustainable...

https://investinginkids.net/2013/04/11/expanded-pre-k-is-fiscally-sustainable/

My recent TEDx talk is now posted on YouTube.  In 15 minutes, this talk summarizes my argument for why early childhood programs can build stronger local economies.  It summarizes some of the ke...

https://investinginkids.net/2012/10/29/my-tedx-talk-on-why-early-childhood-programs-are-key-to-local-economic-development/

A recent report released by ReadyNation, prepared with support from the Kauffman Foundation, provides much research information on how special education cost-savings might be used to fund high-qu...

https://investinginkids.net/2012/05/22/special-education-cost-savings/

Andrew Rotherham has an April 5th Time magazine column with the ominous title, “Are Pre-K Programs About To Get Gutted?” Mr. Rotherham apparently has access to an advance copy of the forthcom...

https://investinginkids.net/2012/04/06/making-the-case-for-pre-k-some-fiscal-and-economic-arithmetic/

I recently gave two lengthy presentations on early childhood programs in Grand Haven, Michigan and Newaygo County, Michigan.  My draft speech, which goes for 8 pages, is here. The PowerPoint acc...

https://investinginkids.net/2012/03/09/responding-to-six-arguments-of-skeptics-of-early-childhood-programs/