Samuels, C. (2018, March 02). How Much Would High-Quality, Universal Early Care Cost? Try $140 Billion a Year. Retrieved March 03, 2018

Most early-childhood researchers have coalesced around the importance of high-quality child care and early-learning experiences for young children. And in a new report released last month by a committee operating under the auspices of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has put a price tag—$140 billion annually—on that care. That money, which would come from private sources, public investments and families, would pay for an early childhood system that employs professionals with college degrees who are earning a wage comparable with elementary school teachers, specially trained teachers to work with students with disabilities, ongoing professional development,…