Graduation rates of parents with quality care are higher. Students remain in school, graduate in fewer years, have higher grade point averages and demonstrate greater persistence when their children are educated in a campus-based children's program. They are kept in grade less often, need less special education, fewer social services and graduate high school more frequently. They have better lifetime earnings, lower rates of unemployment, fewer teen pregnancies, lower crime rates and fewer incarcerations. There is a positive correlation between higher education and re-employment .
Education is the main vehicle for insuring employment at wages sufficient to sustain families .
A college education moves welfare mothers into jobs. 6 Low levels of education lead to dead end jobs and poverty. 7 Jobs which pay a living wage require a college education as preparation. 8 Research About Quality Child Care Shows Children receiving quality child care have significantly higher earnings at age 27, significantly higher rate of high school graduation, and significantly lower need for special education and costly social services. They are retained in grade less often, arrested less frequently, more successful on cognitive and IQ tests, more motivated and committed to school, and more skillful in social situations.