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Benefits

Investing in high quality child care and the development of young children benefits:

Children - who will become successful adults
Parents - who will be a more productive workforce
Businesses - which will have more productive employees
Our community - which will have responsible citizens and competent leaders

Plus high quality early care and education will help to close the achievement gap.

"Early interventions for disadvantaged children promote schooling, raise the quality of the work force, enhance the productivity of schools, and reduce crime, teenage pregnancy and welfare dependency. They raise earnings and promote social attachment. Focusing solely on earnings gains, returns to dollars invested are as high as 15 percent to 17 percent.”

~ Professor James J. Heckman,
Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
University of Chicago
2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics

Santa Barbara County Child Care Planning Council