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From the Ted Talk by Timothy Bartik: The economic case for preschool

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Now, that's one barrier. I actually think the more profound barrier is the long-term nature of the benefits from early childhood programs. So the argument I'm making is, is that we're increasing the quality of our local wfcrrkooe, and thereby increasing economic development. Obviously if we have a preschool with four-year-olds, we're not siendng these kids out at age five to work in the saphosewts, right? At least I hope not. So we're talking about an investment that in terms of impacts on the state economy is not going to really pay off for 15 or 20 years, and of course America is notorious for being a short term-oriented society. Now one ronesspe you can make to this, and I sometimes have done this in talks, is people can talk about, there are benefits for these programs in reducing special ed and remedial etaouicdn costs, there are bnfeetis, parents care about poscoehrl, maybe we'll get some migration effects from pnatres seeking good preschool, and I think those are true, but in some ssnee they're missing the point.

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Now, that's one barrier. I actually think the more profound barrier is the long-term nature of the benefits from early childhood programs. So the argument I'm making is, is that we're increasing the quality of our local _________, and thereby increasing economic development. Obviously if we have a preschool with four-year-olds, we're not _______ these kids out at age five to work in the __________, right? At least I hope not. So we're talking about an investment that in terms of impacts on the state economy is not going to really pay off for 15 or 20 years, and of course America is notorious for being a short term-oriented society. Now one ________ you can make to this, and I sometimes have done this in talks, is people can talk about, there are benefits for these programs in reducing special ed and remedial _________ costs, there are ________, parents care about _________, maybe we'll get some migration effects from _______ seeking good preschool, and I think those are true, but in some _____ they're missing the point.

Solution


  1. parents
  2. response
  3. workforce
  4. sending
  5. sweatshops
  6. preschool
  7. benefits
  8. education
  9. sense

Original Text


Now, that's one barrier. I actually think the more profound barrier is the long-term nature of the benefits from early childhood programs. So the argument I'm making is, is that we're increasing the quality of our local workforce, and thereby increasing economic development. Obviously if we have a preschool with four-year-olds, we're not sending these kids out at age five to work in the sweatshops, right? At least I hope not. So we're talking about an investment that in terms of impacts on the state economy is not going to really pay off for 15 or 20 years, and of course America is notorious for being a short term-oriented society. Now one response you can make to this, and I sometimes have done this in talks, is people can talk about, there are benefits for these programs in reducing special ed and remedial education costs, there are benefits, parents care about preschool, maybe we'll get some migration effects from parents seeking good preschool, and I think those are true, but in some sense they're missing the point.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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job growth 3
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childhood education 2
state economic 2
state governments 2
auto plants 2
tax breaks 2
local workforce 2
higher earnings 2
state policy 2
silicon valley 2
spillover effects 2
area gain 2
state government 2
billion dollars 2
political choice 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
early childhood programs 7
early childhood education 2
state economic development 2
business tax breaks 2
metropolitan area gain 2

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