Investing in South City’s youngest residents provides huge benefits to the whole community.
SSF’s Child Care Master Plan determined that every dollar spent on early care and education (ECE) returns more than eight dollars in societal benefit. And decades of research show that providing high-quality ECE to low-income families is the best way to raise high school graduation rates, lower incarceration rates, and reduce unemployment.
Universal preschool not only gives our kids an equitable education now, but also improves everyone’s quality of life for decades to come.