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District Digest: Early Childhood Education in the Fifth District: The Challenges and the Opportunities

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  • Sonya Ravindranath Waddell

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Quality, affordable early care and education (ECE) serves a dual purpose. First, quality child care enables parents, particularly mothers, to work outside the home — an option that may be important both to families and, in a tight labor market, to the economy as a whole. Second, research shows that early education and a high-quality environment contribute to a child's success in kindergarten, which is a predictor of future achievement in school and ultimately in the workforce. Still, most parents in the U.S. struggle to find quality ECE at an affordable price — a challenge that spans the Fifth District and, indeed, the nation.

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  • Sonya Ravindranath Waddell, 2025. "District Digest: Early Childhood Education in the Fifth District: The Challenges and the Opportunities," Econ Focus, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, vol. 25(1Q/2Q), March.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedrrf:99741
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