Early investment in the disadvantaged key to closing inequality gap

During his 2013 State of the Union address, US President Barack Obama referred to University of Chicago professor James Heckman's findings of a 7 to 10 per cent return on investment per annum for certain early childhood education programmes. These rates of return are higher than those in the stock market between 1945 and 2008.

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