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October 12, 2009
A Plain Dealer Article by Brent Larkin Quotes Center Co-director Rob Fischer Regarding Investment in Early Childhood in Cuyahoga County.
A Plain Dealer article by Brent Larkin, "Focus public investment on early-childhood intervention," on October 11, 2009, quotes Center Co-director Rob Fischer regarding Investment in Early Childhood in Cuyahoga County.
The articles main point can be summed up by this quote from the article from Arthur Rolnick and Rob Grunewald, officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis:
"We're quite certain that investing in early childhood education is more likely to create a vibrant economy that [sic] using public funds to lure a sports team by building a new stadium or attracting an automaker by providing tax breaks," Rolnick and Grunewald wrote in 2007. "The return on early childhood development programs that focus on at-risk families far exceeds the return on other projects that are funded as economic development."
The full article can be seen here.
Professor Rob Fischer, has co-led the Evaluation of Cuyahoga County's Early Childhood program, initially called the Early Childhood Initiative, and later renamed Invest in Children, with Professor Claudia Coulton since 2001. The evaluation is housed at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, at the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.