Anyone looking for upstream solutions to the biggest problems facing America should look to Nobel Prize winning University of Chicago Economics Professor James Heckman's work to understand the great gains to be had by investing in early and equal development of human potential.
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*Spanish: Invest in early childhood development: Reduce deficits, strengthen the economy.
One-page article summarizing benefits of early childhood education for deficit reduction using Illinois-specific statistics. A Spanish version of an English tool.
