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When legislators and others think about economic development, what they first of all think about are business tax incentives, property tax abatements, job creation tax credits, you know, there are a million of these programs all over the place.

Now, those programs can make sense if they in fact induce new location decisions, and the way they can make sense is, by creating more and better jobs, they raise employment rates, raise per capita earnings of state residents.

My argument is essentially that early childhood programs can do exactly the same thing, create more and better jobs, but in a different way.

These programs can promote more and better jobs by, you build it, you invest in high-quality preschool, it develops the skills of your local workforce if enough of them stick around, and, in turn, that higher-quality local workforce will be a key driver of creating jobs and creating higher earnings per capita in the local community.

So as a result, if we can invest in other people's children through preschool and other early childhood programs that are high-quality, we not only help those children, we help everyone in the metropolitan area gain in wages and we'll have the metropolitan area gain in job growth.

Another objection used sometimes here to invest in early childhood programs is concern about people moving out.

Okay, so to sum up, there is a lot of research evidence that early childhood programs, if run in a high-quality way, pay off in higher adult skills.

I actually think the more profound barrier is the long-term nature of the benefits from early childhood programs.

Now one response you can make to this, and I sometimes have done this in talks, is people can talk about, there are benefits for these programs in reducing special ed and remedial education costs, there are benefits, parents care about preschool, maybe we'll get some migration effects from parents seeking good preschool, and I think those are true, but in some sense they're missing the point.

So I think the research evidence on the benefits of early childhood programs for the local economy is extremely strong.

These are programs designed to get kids back into education.

They have strong support for the teachers, close links with the community and a broad and diverse curriculum, and often programs which involve students outside school as well as inside school.

I design reading programs for preschoolers.

As time went on, we stopped our environmental programs.

With the revolution around 1980 of P.C.'s, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers, not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers.

The Pentagon's Gorgon Stare and Argus programs will put up to 65 independently operated camera eyes on each drone platform, and this would vastly outstrip human ability to review it.

Working at CDC, I began to travel to different programs around the world and to train them in using PalmPilots to do data collection, instead of using paper.

But the problem is, 20 or 30 programs, like, training 20 or 30 programs to use this technology, that is a tiny drop in the bucket.

There are millions and millions and millions of programs, millions of clinics that need to track drugs, millions of vaccine programs.

Or just to really prove a point, we can launch programs like my personal favorite, the Windows Calculator.

These are the kind of molecular programs we want to be able to write.

The West has given debt forgiveness programs which have halved sub-Saharan debt from about 70 percent of GDP down to about 40.

So these SBIR and SDTR programs, which give small companies early-stage finance have not only been extremely important compared to private venture capital, but also have become increasingly important.

And these are examples of the kinds of programs U.S. intelligence agencies are running right now, against the whole rest of the world.

I'm not arguing that at all, but that's not what programs like PRISM are about.

And the large companies, they typically have wonderful wellness programs, but the medium-sized companies that typically fall between the cracks on issues like this, they started to get engaged and used our program as a model for their own employees to try and have contests to see who might be able to deal with their obesity situation in a way that could be proactively beneficial to others.

It was time to push what I called MAPS 3. Now MAPS 3, like the other two programs, had had an economic development motive behind it, but along with the traditional economic development tasks like building a new convention center, we added some health-related infrastructure to the process.

We have Olympic-caliber events coming to Oklahoma City, and athletes from all over the world moving in, along with inner city programs to get kids more engaged in these types of recreational activities that are a little bit nontraditional.

Another change for the better is that we now have specialized retirement facilities and programs to take care of old people.

But there are great programs for adolescents who are on the edge of care, and 30 percent of kids going into care are adolescents.

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