By Eric Scicchitano
The Daily Item

It's more expensive to send a child to day care than it is to pay the cost of tuition at a state system university.

Pennsylvanians pay on average $10,681 annually for full-time care at child care centers and $8,161 at in-home settings for children from newborns through preschool, according to data collected in 2017 by Child Care Aware of America, the latest available from the nonprofit advocacy group.

By Julia Klein, Chairwoman & CEO of CH Briggs Co.
Reading Eagle

Investing in our young children is not hard. It's not soft. It's not complicated. It's not partisan. It's not up to someone else. It's an imperative backed by decades of research.

By William Lehr Jr.
PennLive

In June, Gov. Tom Wolf and the Pennsylvania General Assembly helped make wishes come true, with a remarkable, bipartisan allocation in the 2018-19 state budget of an additional $66.5 million for early learning programs.

We have long known that investing in early childhood promises to deliver strong adults.