Preschool attendance has been linked to higher future graduation rates, higher future incomes, and lower future involvement in crime.​

The positive benefits of preschool are even more amplified for children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, or otherwise marginalized groups.

Preschool is a solid investment: for every $1 invested in early childhood education programs, cities see a return of $6.30. That’s money.

Although Michigan currently runs the Great Start Program, which is designed to provide preschool for children from low-income backgrounds, the program is grossly underfunded. Currently, there are thousands of eligible families currently on the waitlist.

A variety of cities across the country currently fund their own universal preschool programs — and raising taxes is not the only way to do so.

Support for universal preschool is bipartisan — people on each side of the aisle agree that increasing funding towards early childhood education programs is important.